On Wed, May 17, 2017 at 09:15:51AM +0100, James Hogarth wrote:
On 17 May 2017 at 08:46, Daniel P. Berrange
<berrange(a)redhat.com> wrote:
> Converting apps from nettools to iproute is often non-trivial piece
> of work. As such isn't really something Fedora package maintainers
> should look to undertake as the risk of introducing regressions is
> non-negligible. Bug reports really need to go the corresponding
> upstream communities to get anything done.
>
That's a sensible position and one I can respect. I do wonder how much
is upstream and how much is a result of packaging though, that itself
might be an interesting investigation.
I think this might be something that rises to the level of a
Change ("Officially Deprecate net-tools in Fedora"), and while working
with upstreams is going to be necessary, I think having a Fedora
tracker could be useful, if you're interested in putting in that
effort.
At the very least it may be worth checking for upstream bugs, filing
them where they don't exist, and then filing a bugzilla (even with a
tracking bug perhaps? Is this something for FPC to discuss maybe?)
ticket linked to the upstream.
Probably FESCo rather than FPC, unless we're going to ban depending on
net-tools or something like that.
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Matthew Miller
<mattdm(a)fedoraproject.org>
Fedora Project Leader