I have to chime in here.  It's entirely frustrating when a good,
working, API stablizes only to be discarded because something supposedly
shiny and new comes along.  That would be all well and good except new
is not so shiny.

Seriously folks, as others have said, the dhclient script and it's run-
parts dir are a well accepted standard which many software packages have
bought into to make dynamic host configuration both robust and reliable.
And now network manager comes along with an immature, less-featureful
interface and you want to throw away the years of investment into
dhclient's script?

To what gain?  That's what I really want to know.  You'd get no argument
from me about supplementing the dhclient standard with network manager
if you wish, but it's wholly unacceptable to simply drop the dhclient
script standard and all of the functionality it brings to the table with
the neutered, watered down network manager "dispatch" functionality.

This appears to be yet another case of Ubuntu looking to make change
just for the sake of making change, without fully thinking through the
ramifications of the change.  This is the whole "update-
manager"/libnotify debacle all over again.  Are we going to also have to
wait 3 releases or more to achieve the same functionality that was
prematurely removed?

If you guys want to change things, assuming the final product of the
change is progress, that's fine and dandy, just, please, stop lumbering
your users with half-baked changes and don't foist them on your users
until they are feature complete.  Nobody wants a car with no engine, or
no wheels, etc.  When the feature is complete, then and only then,
introduce it into stable releases.

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NetworkManager does not use dhclient-exit-hooks.d
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/293139
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