Bug#939904: Temporary network disruption during upgrade

[Michael Biebl]

Am 14.08.22 um 18:43 schrieb Andrej Shadura:
> Hi,
> 
> On Sun, 14 Aug 2022 04:29:52 +0200 Raphaël Halimi 
> <raphael.halimi at gmail.com> wrote:
>> And finally, my opinion:
>>
>> After reading the mail thread in this bug report, I thought the plan 
>> was to separate systemd-resolvconf (as Arch did, IIUC), not the entire 
>> systemd-resolved service.
>>
>> IMHO this is a **very** bad idea, and not only because of the broken 
>> DNS resolution broken after the upgrade in some cases... The whole 
>> point of systemd-resolved is that it's included in systemd (so 
>> basically in every Linux system nowadays) and, alongside 
>> systemd-networkd, provides an entire network configuration/management 
>> stack, without the need to install optional packages, but most 
>> importantly, standard across all distributions (no need to learn 
>> and/or master ifupdown, sysconfig, netplan, whatever, etc).
>>
>> If it's not too late, I strongly suggest to reintegrate 
>> systemd-resolved in the main systemd package (as it was before), and 
>> split only systemd-resolvconf.
> 
> I agree that the decision should be revisited, but for a different 
> reason. I see no reason why resolvconf cannot be used with resolved; 
> OTOH the current split prevents that, which I find very undesirable.
> 
> I was very surprised when I learnt today systemd-resolved has a 
> Conflicts against resolvconf, that was contrary to my expectations, and 
> I suspect I’m not the only person concerned about this.
> 

Given that the package takes over management of /etc/resolv.conf, I 
don't think it makes sense to have resolvconf interfering here.

tbh, I don't see the benefit/use case of installing resolvconf along 
side systemd-resolved.
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