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 [$] 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/