Re: Should we have a debian-network mailing list?

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Thanks for raising this.

On Thu May 28, 2026 at 8:11 AM BST, Marc Haber wrote:
> Should we have a debian-network mailing list? Or is the networking=20
> topic so important that network issues should be discussed on=20
> debian-devel proper?

I prefer to see lists (or wikis or IRC channels or...) created to _move_=20
an existing discussion to, once there's a demonstrated interest. So I=20
would not object to raising these on -devel. (-devel is pretty quiet=20
these days!). But I wouldn't object to the new list. I just think the=20
chance of success is higher with the former approach.

> Independently of this decision, is it time now to sunset the=20
> debian-ipv6 and the debian-firewall mailing list due to the low=20
> traffic? Both ipv6 and firewalls are no longer a corner topic inside=20
> networking, both topics have become intrinsic part of networking in=20
> Linux.

Sounds sensible to me.



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