Bug#798329: ifconfig: changed output format breaks scripts

[Thorsten Glaser]

On Tue, 8 Sep 2015, Martín Ferrari wrote:

> Finally, I have no intentions on maintaining a fork of net-tools to
> support the 14 years old output format of ifconfig, so I am closing this
> as wontfix.

Hmpf. I’ll search for scripts using either ip or ifconfig
and do some hackery to work with either output format then.

Will the current format at least stay?

//mirabilos
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