Public bug reported: According to email from Takashi [1] netifaces was archived some time ago. We should remove usage of it in Neutron. It seems it's only used in windows ip_lib module [2] which isn't tested almost at all in our ci.
[1] https://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-discuss/2023-April/033261.html [2] https://codesearch.opendev.org/?q=netifaces&i=nope&literal=nope&files=&excludeFiles=&repos=openstack/networking-bagpipe,openstack/networking-bgpvpn,openstack/networking-midonet,openstack/networking-odl,openstack/networking-ovn,openstack/networking-sfc,openstack/neutron,openstack/neutron-dynamic-routing,openstack/neutron-fwaas,openstack/neutron-fwaas-dashboard,openstack/neutron-lib,openstack/neutron-specs,openstack/neutron-tempest-plugin,openstack/neutron-vpnaas,openstack/neutron-vpnaas-dashboard,openstack/ovn-bgp-agent,openstack/ovn-octavia-provider,openstack/ovsdbapp ** Affects: neutron Importance: Low Status: Confirmed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Yahoo! Engineering Team, which is subscribed to neutron. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2015844 Title: Remove netifaces dependency from neutron Status in neutron: Confirmed Bug description: According to email from Takashi [1] netifaces was archived some time ago. We should remove usage of it in Neutron. It seems it's only used in windows ip_lib module [2] which isn't tested almost at all in our ci. [1] https://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-discuss/2023-April/033261.html [2] https://codesearch.opendev.org/?q=netifaces&i=nope&literal=nope&files=&excludeFiles=&repos=openstack/networking-bagpipe,openstack/networking-bgpvpn,openstack/networking-midonet,openstack/networking-odl,openstack/networking-ovn,openstack/networking-sfc,openstack/neutron,openstack/neutron-dynamic-routing,openstack/neutron-fwaas,openstack/neutron-fwaas-dashboard,openstack/neutron-lib,openstack/neutron-specs,openstack/neutron-tempest-plugin,openstack/neutron-vpnaas,openstack/neutron-vpnaas-dashboard,openstack/ovn-bgp-agent,openstack/ovn-octavia-provider,openstack/ovsdbapp To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/neutron/+bug/2015844/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~yahoo-eng-team Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~yahoo-eng-team More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp

