[pkg-netfilter-team] Bug#965990: nftables: nft export command is broken

[j heasley]

Package: nftables
Version: 0.9.0-2
Severity: normal

nft export does not work; none of the options can be used without error and
one option mentioned in error msgs does does not appear in the manpage.

# nft export ruleset json
Error: this output type is not supported
export ruleset json
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
# nft export ruleset xml
Error: this output type is not supported
export ruleset xml
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
# nft export ruleset vm
Error: syntax error, unexpected newline, expecting json
export ruleset vm
                 ^
# nft export vm
Error: syntax error, unexpected newline, expecting json
export vm
         ^
# nft export xml
Error: this output type is not supported
export xml
^^^^^^^^^^^
# nft export json
Error: this output type is not supported
export json
^^^^^^^^^^^^

and the invalid formatting argument error msg is inconsistent:

# nft export ruleset foo
Error: syntax error, unexpected string, expecting xml or json or vm
export ruleset foo
               ^^^


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 10.4
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-9-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages nftables depends on:
ii  dpkg          1.19.7
ii  libc6         2.28-10
ii  libgmp10      2:6.1.2+dfsg-4
ii  libjansson4   2.12-1
ii  libnftables0  0.9.0-2
ii  libreadline7  7.0-5

nftables recommends no packages.

nftables suggests no packages.

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/nftables.conf changed:
flush ruleset


-- no debconf information