Comment 20 for bug 1718227

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Steve Langasek (vorlon) wrote : Re: [Bug 1718227] Re: replacement of ifupdown with netplan needs integration for /etc/network/if{up, down}.d scripts

On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 06:27:18PM -0000, Alkis Georgopoulos wrote:

> For the maintainers of the affected packages to be able to help in this
> issue, addressing the main question already stated above would be most
> helpful:

> To support netplan, do we have to implement netlink events listeners ourselves?
> I'm not sure all maintainers are willing to do that.

> Or is there another package that provides this functionality that we could
> rely on? E.g. NetworkManager does have a dispatcher.d directory that we
> can use, but does Ubuntu ship something similar (networkd-dispatcher?) in
> systems that don't use NetworkManager?

We are looking at integrating networkd-dispatcher for 18.04.

Many of these package tasks may become SRU material after 18.04 releases,
due to the timing.