Should we have a debian-network mailing list?

Marc Haber <[email protected]> Thu, 28 May 2026 09:11:22 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.devel.project
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi,

networking has always been an important part of building a Linux 
distribution, and nowadays in the world of VMs and containers and many 
different ways to bring up a network this is a constant cause of 
friction between packages. the different ways of building firewalls 
plays a big role.

otoh, we do not have a general mailing list for network issues. We have 
debian-ipv6 and debian-firewall, the latter not having had ontopic 
traffic since 2022.

Should we have a debian-network mailing list? Or is the networking topic 
so important that network issues should be discussed on debian-devel 
proper?

Independently of this decision, is it time now to sunset the debian-ipv6 
and the debian-firewall mailing list due to the low traffic? Both ipv6 
and firewalls are no longer a corner topic inside networking, both 
topics have become intrinsic part of networking in Linux.

What do we do?

Greetings
Marc