Bug#929469: systemd-networkd: systemd-networkd: fails with "could not set address: Permission denied"

[Michael Biebl]

Am 26.06.19 um 14:17 schrieb Felipe Sateler:
> Honestly, I don't think networkd should keep quiet about ipv6 being
> disabled when you explicitly set up an ipv6 address.

I agree. While setting up an IPv6 address and at the same time disabling
IPv6 on the kernel side could be seen as a misconfiguration, it might
just as well be plain oversight on the admin's side.
networkd behaving more sensibly in that case is certainly desirable,
including logging about this issue (and afaics this is what the upstream
patch set does via log_info).
At the same time I don't think this issue is critical enough for the
buster release to be delayed, given that networkd is still optional and
non-default and the circumstances where this happens are kinda special.

TBH, I'm not even sure if it should be added to NEWS.
NEWS entries are shown to almost everyone. If we flood users with NEWS
entries they are not affected by, they will get into a habit of ignoring
NEWS entries.
Fwiw, I really struggled whether to add a NEWS entry for the
video->render group change for exactly this reason.

Regards,
Michael
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