[pkg-netfilter-team] Bug#929527: Bug#914694

[Arturo Borrero Gonzalez]

On 6/25/19 10:25 AM, Thomas Lamprecht wrote:
> Don't want to nag to much but is there any news regarding this?
> Buster is planned to release pretty soon (<2 weeks) and iptables
> is quite a important package, IMO. Maybe it went under my radar
> but I saw no unblock request on d.o release list.
> 
> For now I just used update-alternative to use the legacy variants,
> which work fine here, but if my understanding is correct then this
> package (version?) could be thrown out of Buster if it still has RC
> bug so close to the planned release, I mean iptables may be an
> exception as it's quite relevant and still used by a lot but still.
> 

The last upstream release of iptables won't make it into Debian Buster at this
point.

Once buster is released I will:

* provide uptodate package backports of newer upstream releases in
buster-backports (for both iptables and nftables)
* for important bugs, I would try backporting concrete patches to the version in
buster-stable.