[pkg-netfilter-team] Bug#944748: Bug#944748: nftables: no init script

[Arturo Borrero Gonzalez]

Control: tags -1 wontfix
Control: severity -1 normal

On 11/14/19 7:00 PM, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
> 
[..]
> 
> However, nftables appears to ship a systemd unit, which is a
> clear violation of Policy §9.11:
>          “However, any package integrating with other init systems
> must also be backwards-compatible with sysvinit by providing a SysV-
> style init script with the same name as and equivalent functionality
> to any init-specific job, as this is the only start-up configuration
> method guaranteed to be supported by all init implementations.”
> 
> I checked latest version of Policy, and this is still there.
> So please make a stable update adding an init script.
> 

Hey! Thanks for getting in touch.

I'm sorry, but I don't plan to work on any kind of sysvinit support for nftables.

That Debian Policy bit is known to be flawed and a work in progress, to better
reflect the reality of now-a-days Debian systems [0]. If you are aware of that,
I wonder what is the purpose of this bug report. If you weren't aware of that,
I'm glad now you are :-)

Anyway, I'm closing the bug report as wontfix.

regards.

[0] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2019/10/msg00002.html