On Sat, May 13, 2023 at 03:39:50PM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Sat, May 13, 2023 at 08:29:11PM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > On Sat, May 13, 2023 at 01:01:27PM -0500, Nicholas Geovanis wrote: > > > Ifconfig has been deprecated in Debian for some years. > > > > It is *not* deprecated. It is just optional, not essential. > > I don't know what Debian's official stance is, but if you do web searches > for "Linux ifconfig deprecated", you find MANY results.
[...] > Those are the most official-sounding references I can find in a few > minutes. So Redhat. But hey, look at packages.debian.org (I know, looking at a Debian resource is totally... counterintuitive). Net-tools seems active as of currently, has an upstream, there are bug reports worked on, and testing has a major version upgrade wrt. stable. Just because some is "on the internet" it isn't necessarily true (I'd propose "argumentum ad internetum" for that ;-) So no, it doesn't look dead to me. Whatever Redhat and Arch think they think. Cheers -- t
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