The netifaces library is no longer maintained, which is why we need to drop this dependency.
There is only one place in which netifaces is being used, a trivial function that retrives the mac address for a given ip address.
Thankfully, we already have a cloudbase-init "get_adapter_addresses" function that uses ctypes to call GetAdaptersAddresses, which happens to be the same Windows function used by netifaces.
Worth mentioning that netifaces is the only compilable cloudbase-init dependency that does not provide a wheel package.
The netifaces library is no longer maintained, which is why we need to drop this dependency.
There is only one place in which netifaces is being used, a trivial function that retrives the mac address for a given ip address.
Thankfully, we already have a cloudbase-init "get_adapter_addresses" function that uses ctypes to call GetAdaptersAddresses, which happens to be the same Windows function used by netifaces.
Worth mentioning that netifaces is the only compilable cloudbase-init dependency that does not provide a wheel package.
Fixes: https://github.com/cloudbase/cloudbase-init/issues/140