[pkg-netfilter-team] Bug#946519: iptables fails to update rules from fwbuilder

[Raphael Hertzog]

Hello,

On Mon, 20 Jan 2020, Arturo Borrero Gonzalez wrote:
> >    After upgrading to buster from strech, the iptables defined in fwbuilder don't works when changed:
> >  iall I get is a message "iptables: Chain already exists" for each rule and they don't work.
> > 
> >    Moreover as I removed network-manager package my system start withour rules (maybe with default rules) an this moment the script generated by fwbuilder runs without warnning and rules are applied. Afterwards, if I tried to aplly diferent rules, I get the warnning messages and the rules don't work.
> > 
> >    At first my system was running the stable version of iptables, 1.8.2-4, so I move to the testing version, 1.8.3-2, without changes.
> 
> We would need additional information about what ruleset are you (or fwbuilder)
> trying to load.

The user is likely affected by this fwbuilder bug:
https://github.com/fwbuilder/fwbuilder/issues/88

Cheers,
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