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Bug#1078721: iproute2: removing /sbin/ip link breaks other packages and possibly user scripts

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>> The first time I rebooted after iproute2 removed the /sbin/ip link, my system
>> failed to boot. I eventually discovered this was because /sbin/vconfig (from
>> the "vlan" package) calls /sbin/ip and when that failed the network was not
>> configured. This meant having to boot into single user mode for diagnostics
>> because systemd hung forever waiting for the network.
>
>This change was noted in NEWS.
>
>I would suggest hooking your config into something that uses the
>network-online.target target, with a timeout like network-manager and
>networkd do, so that the boot process doesn't hang. If it's a simple
>unit, it's enough to add RuntimeMaxSec= to it, so that it's killed if
>it doesn't work within the configured timeout.

It's just so depressing that this is how debian works now. We used to 
try to not break things, now the answer is "you should have read the 
NEWS, and known that unrelated packages were going to break, and 
reconfigured standard debian network tools to add non-default 
timeouts". All because the aesthetic preference for not having the same 
binary appear in two different paths is a higher priority than
keeping systems working.

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Bug#1078721: iproute2: removing /sbin/ip link breaks other packages and possibly user scripts Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2024-08-15 19:30 +0200
  Bug#1078721: iproute2: removing /sbin/ip link breaks other packages and possibly user scripts Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> - 2024-08-16 17:40 +0200
    Bug#1078721: iproute2: removing /sbin/ip link breaks other packages and possibly user scripts Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> - 2024-08-16 18:00 +0200
      Bug#1078721: iproute2: removing /sbin/ip link breaks other packages and possibly user scripts Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2024-08-16 22:40 +0200

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