[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#938929: Dependency problem with iptables and libvirt-daemon-system

[Ivo De Decker]

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Hi,

On Fri, Aug 30, 2019 at 12:45:16PM +0200, Julian Hyordey wrote:
> apt show libvirt-daemon-system
> Package: libvirt-daemon-system
> Version: 5.0.0-4
> Priority: optional
> Section: admin
> Source: libvirt
> Maintainer: Debian Libvirt Maintainers <
> pkg-libvirt-maintainers at lists.alioth.debian.org>
> Installed-Size: 466 kB
> Depends: debconf (>= 0.5) | debconf-2.0, libacl1 (>= 2.2.23), libapparmor1 (>=
> 2.6~devel), libaudit1 (>= 1:2.2.1), libblkid1 (>= 2.16), libc6 (>= 2.14),
> libcap-ng0 (>= 0.7.9), libdbus-1-3 (>= 1.9.14), libdevmapper1.02.1 (>=
> 2:1.02.20), libgnutls30 (>= 3.6.5), libnl-3-200 (>= 3.2.7), libnl-route-3-200
> (>= 3.2.7), libnuma1 (>= 2.0.11), libselinux1 (>= 2.0.82), libvirt0 (>= 5.0.0),
> libxml2 (>= 2.7.4), libyajl2 (>= 2.0.4), adduser, gettext-base, lsb-base,
> libvirt-clients (= 5.0.0-4), libvirt-daemon (= 5.0.0-4), iptables (>= 1.8.1-1)
> | firewalld, logrotate, policykit-1
> [...]
>  .
> So If I want to migrate from iptables to nftables on my KVM hypervisor, I can't
> remove iptables without removing  libvirt-daemon-system. A bit annoying for an
> hypervisor.

Can't you just install nftables, use it, and leave iptables installed?

Ivo