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For ironic specifically, I think this is a case where we should just
refactor the netutils.py to remove the netifaces use and backport as
needed. The usage is kind in the grand scheme of things.

-Julia

On Sun, Apr 9, 2023 at 7:57 PM Takashi Kajinami <tkajinam at redhat.com> wrote:

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>
> On Mon, Apr 10, 2023 at 11:41 AM Iury Gregory <iurygregory at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Thanks for looking at it Takashi!
>>
>> I will bring up this topic with the ironic community during the weekly
>> meeting (due to holidays we probably won't have a meeting on April 11, but
>> I will add to the agenda and try to discuss in the irc with contributors)
>>
>
> Thanks !
> Just fyi, among all the ironic repos, ironic-python-agent is the only one
> using the library.
> It's good that the core ironic is not affected, though IIUC ipa is one of
> the key components
> for baremetal provisioning so we still need a plan to handle the situation.
>
>
>>
>> Em seg., 10 de abr. de 2023 às 03:28, Takashi Kajinami <
>> tkajinam at redhat.com> escreveu:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>>
>>> I recently (actually, this morning) noticed the netifaces library[1] was
>>> archived a while ago,
>>> because the maintenor could no longer continue Open Source
>>> contributions, unfortunately[2].
>>>
>>> [1] https://github.com/al45tair/netifaces
>>> [2] https://github.com/al45tair/netifaces/issues/78
>>>
>>> I quickly searched the repositories and found some projects which have
>>> netifaces
>>> in their requirements.txt . We might need to look for alternatives (or
>>> offer to maintain
>>> the project, which is always the best) before we face any problems
>>> caused by
>>> that unmaintained library.
>>>
>>> Thank you,
>>> Takashi Kajinami
>>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> *Att[]'s*
>>
>> *Iury Gregory Melo Ferreira *
>> *MSc in Computer Science at UFCG*
>> *Ironic PTL *
>> *Senior Software Engineer at Red Hat Brazil*
>> *Social*: https://www.linkedin.com/in/iurygregory
>> *E-mail:  iurygregory at gmail.com <iurygregory at gmail.com>*
>>
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