Dear listmasters,

please consider creating a new mailing list debian-network.

Short Description:
Package maintenance and interpackage coordination regarding networks

Long Description (generated with AI assistance)

This mailing list provides a forum for discussion and coordination of
networking-related software in Debian. It is intended for Debian package
maintainers, contributors, and experienced users who are interested in
the development, packaging, integration, configuration, and maintenance
of Debian's networking stack.

Topics include network configuration packages, including ifupdown,
systemd-networkd, NetworkManager, Netplan etc, as well as software
implementing layer-2 and layer-3 networking technologies. Discussions
covering VLANs, bridges, bonding, teaming, wireless networking, PPP,
VPNs, routing, DHCP, DNS, IPv4, IPv6, multicast, tunnelling, and other
networking protocols and services are welcome.

The list also covers networking security software, including firewalls,
packet filtering, network access control, and related infrastructure.
Discussion of associated debugging, monitoring, and diagnostic tools, is
encouraged where relevant to Debian.

The mailing list mainly serves as a coordination point between
maintainers of related packages. Advanced users are welcome to
contribute operational experience, seek guidance, and participate in
design discussions.

Questions from end users about configuring or troubleshooting networking
on Debian systems are generally better directed to user support forums
such as debian-user.

Category: Developers
Subscription Policy: open
Post Policy: open
Web Archive: yes

While we are at this, it is probably time to sunset both the
debian-firewall and debian-ipv6 lists, probably redirecting the posting
address to debian-network. Those two lists are extremely low volume and
their topics are fully covered by the broader-targeted debian-network.

Even if debian-network doesn't get creaed, sunset of debian-ipv6 and
debian-firewall should be considered.

Greetings
Marc