Should we have a debian-network mailing list?

From	Marc Haber <mh+debian-project@zugschlus.de>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.project
Subject	Should we have a debian-network mailing list?
Date	2026-05-28 11:40 +0200
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Hi,

networking has always been an important part of building a Linux 
distribution, and nowadays in the world of VMs and containers and many 
different ways to bring up a network this is a constant cause of 
friction between packages. the different ways of building firewalls 
plays a big role.

otoh, we do not have a general mailing list for network issues. We have 
debian-ipv6 and debian-firewall, the latter not having had ontopic 
traffic since 2022.

Should we have a debian-network mailing list? Or is the networking topic 
so important that network issues should be discussed on debian-devel 
proper?

Independently of this decision, is it time now to sunset the debian-ipv6 
and the debian-firewall mailing list due to the low traffic? Both ipv6 
and firewalls are no longer a corner topic inside networking, both 
topics have become intrinsic part of networking in Linux.

What do we do?

Greetings
Marc

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Should we have a debian-network mailing list? Marc Haber <mh+debian-project@zugschlus.de> - 2026-05-28 11:40 +0200
  Re: Should we have a debian-network mailing list? Matthias Geiger <werdahias@riseup.net> - 2026-05-28 13:00 +0200
    Re: Should we have a debian-network mailing list? Marc Haber <mh+debian-project@zugschlus.de> - 2026-05-28 13:30 +0200
      Re: Should we have a debian-network mailing list? Geert Stappers <stappers@stappers.nl> - 2026-05-28 22:20 +0200
  Re: Should we have a debian-network mailing list? "Jonathan Dowland" <jmtd@debian.org> - 2026-05-29 10:50 +0200

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