Package: wnpp Severity: normal I intend to orphan the ifupdown package.
I no longer have time to work on this package. If you are interested in taking over this package, please make it team-maintained. ifupdown is Debian's own native network configuration tool, and is more than 20 years old. A core principle of ifupdown is that it runs only when an interface is brought up or down; there is no daemon running in the background that can react to eventsr, although are udev hooks so that ifupdown is run whenever an interface is being created by the kernel. ifupdown also offloads a lot of work to its own hook scripts, and to daemons it starts (such as DHCP client daemons and wpa_supplicant). Despite all this, it can manage quite complex network setups, with only a very minimal binary (88 kB on amd64), making it interesting for low-resource environments. The package description is: This package provides the tools ifup and ifdown which may be used to configure (or, respectively, deconfigure) network interfaces based on interface definitions in the file /etc/network/interfaces.