Release Notes for buster: 70-persistent-net-rules still supported?

[Michael Biebl]

Am 03.07.19 um 15:50 schrieb andreimpopescu at gmail.com:
> Please kindly confirm this Release Notes entry is needed/correct/etc.
> https://www.debian.org/releases/buster/amd64/release-notes/ch-information.en.html#migrate-interface-names
> 
> #919390 appears to contradict /usr/share/doc/udev/README.Debian.gz.

In short: yes please keep this section in the release notes.
We still ship
https://salsa.debian.org/systemd-team/systemd/blob/master/debian/patches/debian/Revert-udev-network-device-renaming-immediately-give.patch
in buster, which sort of makes 70-persistent-net.rules work most of the
time.
This patch is a horrible hack though and has already been removed in the
experimental branch which will be buster+1
https://salsa.debian.org/systemd-team/systemd/commit/3d45a7af959cf260bffcb1ad0262973b5750ae36

We want people to switch to the new naming scheme for two reasons:
1/ It makes buster backports of newer systemd versions possible
2/ People are already prepared when they upgrade to buster+1. Say the
buster+1 kernel fails, they can still boot with the buster kernel+initramfs.


I can go into more detail but hope that clarifies the situation.

Regards,
Michael
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