Thank you for the detailed explanation Fabio, the impact of the bug is
now much better understood. Can I ask for an update of the Impact field
in the SRU description above? In a summary, but also getting into a bit
more details about how this differs from focal+ etc.

One thing I worry about in this SRU is basically what has been mentioned by Ben 
Hutchings as a follow up to the patch forwarded upstream:
https://lists.zytor.com/archives/klibc/2021-December/004635.html

I worry that since this issue in ipconfig has been around for *so long* that 
people could have actually started depending on the behavior being as-is. I 
don't think klibc's ipconfig is too widely used (as klibc-utils only has like 2 
reverse-dependencies), but it's still something to consider.
I think I'm not generally against this SRU. Similar to Robie I would like some 
regression potential analysis done and included in the [Where problems could 
occur] section - one of them being what I mentioned above. Can you think of any 
other issues this change could cause? In integration or in different parts of 
the code? Can we mitigate this somehow by performing some additional testing?

If you could modify the two sections of the SRU description, I'd be
ready to accept this into bionic-proposed.

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