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On Thu, 17 Jan 2019 15:35:54 +0100 Andreas Beckmann
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:anbe@debian.org"><anbe@debian.org></a> wrote:<br>
> <br>
> Hi,<br>
<p>Hello<br>
</p>
> <br>
> 0m33.7s ERROR: FAIL: Broken symlinks:<br>
> /sbin/ebtables-restore -> /usr/sbin/ebtables-restore<br>
> /sbin/ebtables-save -> /usr/sbin/ebtables-save<br>
> /sbin/ebtables -> /usr/sbin/ebtables<br>
<p>I can confirm this.</p>
<p>These symlinks are created by the postinst script of ebtables but
are not properly removed by the pre/postrm one.</p>
<p>The prerm script is doing the following:</p>
<pre>if [ "$1" = "remove" ] ; then
iptables_version=$(dpkg-query -W -f='${Version;3}\n' iptables)
if [[ "$iptables_version" < 1.8 ]]; then
LIST="/sbin/ebtables /sbin/ebtables-save /sbin/ebtables-restore"
for i in $LIST ; do
if [ -L "$i" ] ; then
rm $i
fi
done
fi
fi
</pre>
<p>First remark, shouldn't dpkg --compare-versions be used instead
of just the < sign?</p>
<p>Then, these symlinks must also be created/removed in the iptables
package itself for this to work, this is not the case ATM.
Otherwise, if ebtables is removed and then iptables package is
removed, the symlinks will stay on the filesystem forever.</p>
<p>Again all of this needs to be coordinated between ip/eb/arptables
packages, could all of this be fixed in a consistent way?<br>
</p>
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