I request assistance with maintaining the ifupdown package.

The package description is:
 This package provides the tools ifup and ifdown which may be used to
 configure (or, respectively, deconfigure) network interfaces based on
 interface definitions in the file /etc/network/interfaces.

While my *personal* interest remains to replace ifupdown with
ifupdown-ng (when it gets ready as a drop-in replacement), there are
some open issues in ifupdown that it would be great to solve in the
meantime. Please, don't hesiteate to jump in to help maintaining it!

Cheers,