ipchains is a perfect representation of what I want to see. They introduced it as an option alongside ipfirewall in 2.1, made it the default but allowed fallback to ipfirewall in 2.2, and removed ipfirewall in 2.4. That is a sane way to introduce a large breaking change. Not to mention they provided compatibility scripts to try to smooth over the user-side differences.
They certainly did NOT say "I'm replacing ipfirewall with ipchains in six months, and if your distro can't handle it you should sunset your distro."
It shouldn't be controversial to request a measured approach when making major changes to software lots of people depend on. That's part of the burden of working on important software. Note I'm not against apt or anything moving to rust.
They certainly did NOT say "I'm replacing ipfirewall with ipchains in six months, and if your distro can't handle it you should sunset your distro."
It shouldn't be controversial to request a measured approach when making major changes to software lots of people depend on. That's part of the burden of working on important software. Note I'm not against apt or anything moving to rust.
edit: spelling