[$] Debating ifupdown replacements for Debian trixie Debian does not have an official way to configure networking. Instead, it has https://wiki.debian.org/NetworkConfiguration recommended ways to configure networking, one of which is the venerable https://salsa.debian.org/debian/ifupdown , which has part of Debian since the turn of the century and is showing its age. A conversation about its maintainability and possible replacement with https://github.com/ifupdown-ng/ifupdown-ng has led to discussions about the default network-management tools for Debian "https://www.debian.org/releases/trixie/ " (Debian 13, which expected in 2025) and beyond. No route to consensus has been found, yet. https://lwn.net/Articles/989055/