Bug#824025: udev: Please split rule for MAC-based name of USB network interface out of 73-special-net-names.rules

[Raphael Hertzog]

Package: udev
Version: 229-5
Severity: wishlist
User: devel at kali.org
Usertags: origin-kali

Kali opted to revert the new names of network interfaces and as such
we used to run the following command in our live image:
ln -sf /dev/null /etc/systemd/network/90-mac-for-usb.link
ln -sf /dev/null /etc/systemd/network/99-default.link

But the 90-mac-for-usb.link has now been obsoleted by a single udev
rule in /lib/udev/rules.d/73-special-net-names.rules. To disable that
rule only, I have to provide /etc/udev/rules.d/73-special-net-names.rules
with all the other rules except that one.

I would really prefer if that rule could be split into its own file
so that it can be disabled in the same way with a single symlink instead
of having to maintain a forked version of 73-special-net-names.rules.

Thank you for considering my request!

-- Package-specific info:

-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (500, 'oldstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.5.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.utf8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages udev depends on:
ii  adduser      3.114
ii  dpkg         1.18.7
ii  libacl1      2.2.52-3
ii  libblkid1    2.28-5
ii  libc6        2.22-7
ii  libkmod2     22-1.1
ii  libselinux1  2.5-2
ii  libudev1     229-5
ii  lsb-base     9.20160110
ii  procps       2:3.3.11-3
ii  util-linux   2.28-5

udev recommends no packages.

udev suggests no packages.

Versions of packages udev is related to:
ii  systemd  229-5

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