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

[Johan Fleury]

>> this bug utterly hosed the systems i am working on (fortunately a dev 

>> network)
>>
> If in a rush, one could simply install netbase from testing. It should be a
> simple operation.

Or install a previous version that may still be in apt cache.

> This costs thousand of €€€ (EURs) in engineering time. Would you volunteer to do
> all the work you are suggesting should be done? Or fund with money for other
> folks to do so?
>
> Please, be mindful, Debian is a community project. People do work here mostly on
> a volunteer capacity. While I may understand your frustration, this kind of
> yelling you are doing might destroy people's motivation in communities.

Totally agree, and I wanted to thank you for the work you’re doing on backporting iptables, it’s appreciated and really helpful (for instance, without this I wouldn’t be able to run Kubernetes on Buster).

>> 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.

Am I doing something wrong here? I really need iptables to be installed from backports and this is the only way I found to do so (appart from running `apt install -t buster-backports iptables` by hand)

--
Johan Fleury

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