[pkg-netfilter-team] Bug#923000: Bug#923000: iptables-apply does not restart fail2ban when reverting

[Arturo Borrero Gonzalez]

Control: tags -1 +1 wontfix

On Fri, 22 Feb 2019 at 22:15, Richard Lewis
<richard.lewis.debian at googlemail.com> wrote:
>
> Package: iptables
> Version: 1.6.0+snapshot20161117-6
> Severity: normal
> File: /sbin/iptables-apply
> Tags: patch
>
> Dear Maintainer,
>
> iptables-apply stops fail2ban (line 48) but only
> restarts it if it gets to line 291. If rules were
> reverted line 291 is not executed and the system
> is not in the same state as before.
>

I'm not sure how this script ended in upstream iptables. Netfilter
developers don't usually use this script, or fail2ban, or the fail2ban
integration used in this script, even less in sysvinit systems.

A fix for this is very unlikely at this point. I will mark this bug as
wontfix for these reasons.