[pkg-netfilter-team] Bug#911777: Bug#911777: Bug#911777: iptables: ferm broken by changed path of iptables-restore

[Chris Boot]

On 25/10/2018 10:02, Arturo Borrero Gonzalez wrote:
> On Thu, 25 Oct 2018 at 01:18, Cesare Leonardi <celeonar at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> In the ferm case, it suffice to create the following two symlinks, to
>> make it start again:
> 
> Thanks for reporting!
> 
> I would really like to don't introduce such symlinks. iptables should
> really stop living in /sbin.
> 
> So, in this case, perhaps the proper fix is for ferm to don't hardcode
> binary paths.

Perhaps, but in that case a list of broken packages is going to need to
be compiled, bugs filed against them, and (versioned) Breaks added to
iptables to make sure that people's systems are not broken by this.

It's also going to need a NEWS.Debian entry if there isn't one already
(I haven't checked) because people will have written scripts which
hard-code the old paths.

Cheers,
Chris

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