[pkg-netfilter-team] Bug#1007829: arptables - Fails to install: Too many levels of symbolic links

[Bastian Blank]

Package: arptables
Version: 0.0.5-3
Severity: grave

arptables fails to install, using dpkg 1.21.2:

| Unpacking arptables (0.0.5-3) ...
| Setting up arptables (0.0.5-3) ...
| update-alternatives: using /usr/sbin/arptables-legacy to provide /usr/sbin/arptables (arptables) in auto mode
| update-alternatives: error: cannot stat file '/usr/sbin/arptables': Too many levels of symbolic links
| dpkg: error processing package arptables (--configure):
|  installed arptables package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 2
| Processing triggers for man-db (2.10.1-1) ...
| Errors were encountered while processing:
|  arptables
| E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

In the end we have some self-links:

| lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root    19 Mar 17 12:32 /usr/sbin/arptables -> /usr/sbin/arptables
| lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root    27 Mar 17 12:32 /usr/sbin/arptables-restore -> /usr/sbin/arptables-restore
| lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root    24 Mar 17 12:32 /usr/sbin/arptables-save -> /usr/sbin/arptables-save

Bastian

-- System Information:
Debian Release: bookworm/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 5.16.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/12 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages arptables depends on:
ii  libc6  2.33-7

arptables recommends no packages.

arptables suggests no packages.