I'd agree with that. In addition so many peoples own scripts rely on them that the user impact could be huge. That and every SA I know (and me) dislikes the ip tool with a passion.

Regards,

Jon


On Wed, 17 May 2017, 08:47 Daniel P. Berrange, <berrange@redhat.com> wrote:
On Tue, May 16, 2017 at 11:29:42PM +0100, James Hogarth wrote:
> Hi,
>
> It was pointed out on IRC to me tonight that there are actually a
> reasonable number of packages that still depend on net-tools[0].
>
> This has been deprecated for a long time now and we really should
> strive to have everything use iproute2 instead so that there is no
> longer a need to keep the deprecated package about, other than if
> someone explicitly really wants netstat or ifconfig for some reason.
>
> Is the best way to handle this a mass bug filing?

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.


Regards,
Daniel
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