Comment 9 for bug 1737640

Tested that on a "broken" environment (after a reboot with a broken package):

root@maas-xenial3:~# apt install ubuntu-fan
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# after a reboot with a broken package an address was present but the interface was not considered as "configured" by ifupdown - had to manually delete an address to avoid RTNETLINK answers: File exists on ifup

root@maas-xenial3:~# ip a d 10.10.101.104/24 dev ens3

root@maas-xenial3:~# ifdown ens3
ifdown: interface ens3 not configured

root@maas-xenial3:~# ifup ens3

root@maas-xenial3:~# ip a s
1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN group default qlen 1
    link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
    inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
    inet6 ::1/128 scope host
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
2: ens3: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state UP group default qlen 1000
    link/ether 52:54:00:82:7d:16 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
    inet 10.10.101.104/24 brd 10.10.101.255 scope global ens3
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
    inet6 fe80::5054:ff:fe82:7d16/64 scope link
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever

# all good
root@maas-xenial3:~# ifdown -a
root@maas-xenial3:~# ifup -a