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

[Arturo Borrero Gonzalez]

On Thu, 25 Oct 2018 at 11:39, Chris Boot <bootc at debian.org> wrote:
> > 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.
>

Ok, I agree, fair enough.

Are we sure that if we introduce some temporal/compatibility symlinks
for buster, we won't have the same problem again in buster+1?
i.e, at some point the symlinks in /sbin need to be dropped anyway,
are we sure a stable release in between is enough time?

Any volunteers to do this work? The available time I have to work in
this package right now is very little.