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

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Package: iproute2
Version: 6.10.0-1
Severity: critical
Justification: breaks the whole system

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.

My ideal solution would be to revert 1064795 and mark it "wontfix" as there's
no way to know how many users have locally written scripts that call ip via
what used to be a perfectly valid path (and because removing the symlink buys
exactly nothing as far as I can tell).

A less satisfactory solution would be to add a versioned Breaks and a version
of the vlan package with a different path to /sbin/ip. (And, of course, any
other package that might have broken, not including local scripts which we
can't possibly identify.)

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

Kernel: Linux 6.10.4-amd64 (SMP w/12 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages iproute2 depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]  1.5.87
ii  libbpf1                1:1.4.5-1
ii  libc6                  2.39-6
ii  libcap2                1:2.66-5
ii  libcap2-bin            1:2.66-5
ii  libdb5.3t64            5.3.28+dfsg2-7
ii  libelf1t64             0.191-2
ii  libmnl0                1.0.5-2+b1
ii  libselinux1            3.5-2+b4
ii  libtirpc3t64           1.3.4+ds-1.3
ii  libxtables12           1.8.10-4

iproute2 recommends no packages.

Versions of packages iproute2 suggests:
ii  python3  3.12.5-1

-- debconf information excluded

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Bug#1078721: iproute2: removing /sbin/ip link breaks other packages and possibly user scripts Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2024-08-14 21:40 +0200
  Bug#1078721: iproute2: removing /sbin/ip link breaks other packages and possibly user scripts "G. Branden Robinson" <g.branden.robinson@gmail.com> - 2024-08-15 19:40 +0200
    Bug#1078721: iproute2: removing /sbin/ip link breaks other packages and possibly user scripts Nilesh Patra <nilesh@debian.org> - 2024-08-15 19:50 +0200
      Bug#1078721: iproute2: removing /sbin/ip link breaks other packages and possibly user scripts Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> - 2024-08-16 00:30 +0200
        Bug#1064795: iproute2: removing /sbin/ip link breaks other packages and possibly user scripts Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> - 2024-08-22 02:20 +0200

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