[pkg-netfilter-team] Bug#913883: usrmerge: can't merge with iptables and ebtables installed

[Marco d'Itri]

On Nov 17, Marco d'Itri <md at Linux.IT> wrote:

> > Uninstalling ebtables makes the conversion pass. Installing ebtables
> > again works without error.
> But I highly doubt that the ebtables nft emulation would still work at 
> that point.
Confirmed: this way ebtables overwrites the iptables diversion.

> > I have no idea who is at fault here
> iptables should not have started managing /usr/sbin/ebtables-restore 
> without coordinaation with ebtables (or else conflicting with it).
> I cannot see how this would not be broken even without a merged-/usr 
> since systems would have two functionally different ebtables-restore 
> programs in different directories.
Confirmed: iptables should divert /sbin/ebtables*, and having two 
different commands with the same name in the $PATH is broken with or
without merged-/usr.

But while the bug is in iptables I will make usrmerge conflict with 
ebtables: since ebtables is deprecated this should cause less problems 
for users.

I would really appreciate if the iptables maintainer could comment about 
this bug.

-- 
ciao,
Marco
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