Once upon a time, Matthew Miller mattdm@fedoraproject.org said:
With this change, existing profiles in ifcfg format will be automatically migrated to the native keyfile format via a migration service shipped with the NetworkManager-initscripts-ifcfg-rh package. In Fedora, we plan to drop the plugin by Fedora Linux 41.
(Emphasis on the last line.)
The words "the network-scripts subpackage is deprecated and will be removed" do not seem to have appeared in the release notes, and in retrospect that probably should have been stronger.
"Gone in 40" _does_ technically fit into the letter of "drop by 41"... but maybe not the spirit?
Dropping the NM ifcfg plugin is very different from dropping the actual old network scripts.