Bug#798329: ifconfig: changed output format breaks scripts

[Thorsten Glaser]

Package: net-tools
Version: 1.60+git20150829.73cef8a-1
Severity: important

Hi,

the changed output format of ifconfig breaks scripts parsing it.

Before:

br0       Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 90:e2:ba:0c:b8:17  
          inet addr:172.26.3.108  Bcast:172.26.255.255  Mask:255.255.0.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::21b:21ff:fe62:2577/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:2351724 errors:0 dropped:2931 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:525699 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 
          RX bytes:1659213748 (1.5 GiB)  TX bytes:216861337 (206.8 MiB)

After:

br0: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST>  mtu 1500
        inet 172.26.3.108  netmask 255.255.0.0  broadcast 172.26.255.255
        inet6 fe80::21b:21ff:fe62:2577  prefixlen 64  scopeid 0x20<link>
        ether 90:e2:ba:0c:b8:17  txqueuelen 0  (Ethernet)
        RX packets 2351867  bytes 1659222913 (1.5 GiB)
        RX errors 0  dropped 2931  overruns 0  frame 0
        TX packets 525708  bytes 216861987 (206.8 MiB)
        TX errors 0  dropped 0 overruns 0  carrier 0  collisions 0

This particularily breaks both getting the MAC address and
the/an IP address.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers unreleased
  APT policy: (500, 'unreleased'), (500, 'buildd-unstable'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: x32 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386, amd64

Kernel: Linux 4.1.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/lksh
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)

Versions of packages net-tools depends on:
ii  libc6  2.19-19

net-tools recommends no packages.

net-tools suggests no packages.

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