Bug#1064795: iproute2: removing /sbin/ip link breaks other packages and possibly user scripts

From	Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.bugs.dist, linux.debian.devel, linux.debian.kernel
Subject	Bug#1064795: iproute2: removing /sbin/ip link breaks other packages and possibly user scripts
Date	2024-08-22 02:20 +0200
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On Fri, 2024-08-16 at 16:54 +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 16, 2024 at 05:21:38PM +0200, Philip Hands wrote:
> > I think it probably was just a coincidence, since it looks like the
> > change was made in order to fix #1064795 which was reported on
> > 25 Feb 2024.
> 
> Ah, good to know, thanks.  I didn't notice that since it wasn't
> mentioned in the iproute2 changelog.
> 
> > It just strikes me as obvious that removing any long-standing binary
> > path in Debian is pretty-much bound to break someone's system, and if
> > you want to do that you really ought to at least check, and preferably
> > try to work out a way of warning them about it, or fixing the breakage
> > first.
> 
> Quite.  If nothing else, I think the code actually in the Debian archive
> that relies on the old path ought to be changed _first_, e.g. via an
> MBF.  I see a bunch of cases that are relatively subtle and might suck a
> lot of other people's time trying to debug them from cold, such as
> AppArmor profiles and example scripts, and it's just good manners to
> give maintainers an explicit heads-up.

I've made a team upload of iproute2 (version 6.10.0-2) with this change
reverted.

Luca, please leave the symlink in place at least as long as there are
packages that rely on it.

Ben.

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Ben Hutchings
All the simple programs have been written, and all the good names taken

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