[pkg-netfilter-team] Bug#969058: iptables in buster-backports requires netbase >= 6.0 which is not present in archive

[Arturo Borrero Gonzalez]

Control: forcemerge -1 969020

On Wed, 26 Aug 2020 20:12:15 +0000 Johan Fleury <jfleury at arcaik.net> wrote:
> Package: iptables
> Version: 1.8.5-3~bpo10+1
> Severity: grave
> Justification: renders package unusable
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> Commit d7ad2173[^1] was backported into the debian/buster-backports
> branch and the iptables package version 1.8.5-3~bpo10+1 was pushed to
> the buster-backports archive yesterday[^2], but netbase is not present
> in version >=6.0 in the archive.

I just uploaded netbase 6.1~bpo10+1 to buster-backports.
This should fix the problem.

Thanks for reporting!

> 
> This makes `iptables` un-upgradable on my system, and even worse, it
> lead to it being removed an I cannot install it anymore:

this is because the apt pin config you have for the package... The config tells
apt to only install the package from buster-bpo, but that package is
uninstallable, therefore the deadlock.