[pkg-netfilter-team] Bug#919583: ebtables: broken symlinks: /sbin/ebtables{, -restore, -save} -> /usr/sbin/ebtables{, -restore, -save}

[Laurent Bigonville]

Le 27/01/19 à 09:54, Laurent Bigonville a écrit :
> On Thu, 17 Jan 2019 15:35:54 +0100 Andreas Beckmann <anbe at debian.org> 
> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
>
> Hello
>
> >
> > 0m33.7s ERROR: FAIL: Broken symlinks:
> > /sbin/ebtables-restore -> /usr/sbin/ebtables-restore
> > /sbin/ebtables-save -> /usr/sbin/ebtables-save
> > /sbin/ebtables -> /usr/sbin/ebtables
>
> I can confirm this.
>
> These symlinks are created by the postinst script of ebtables but are 
> not properly removed by the  pre/postrm one.
>
> The prerm script is doing the following:
>
> 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
>
> First remark, shouldn't dpkg --compare-versions be used instead of 
> just the < sign?
>
> 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.
>
An other solution is to remove this version check and just remove 
unconditionally these symlinks in /sbin as they are not created by any 
other packages (including iptables)
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