[pkg-netfilter-team] Bug#916596: iptables.postinst failure on link creation

[Jeremy Sowden]

On 2023-02-05, at 12:08:32 +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> Control: tags -1 - moreinfo
> Control: severity -1 serious
> 
> On Fri, Dec 28, 2018 at 02:59:26PM +0100, Arturo Borrero Gonzalez wrote:
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> > Control: tag -1 moreinfo
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> > On Sun, 16 Dec 2018 13:14:19 +0100 Olivier <olivieraj at free.fr> wrote:
> > > Package: iptables Version: 1.8.2-2+b1 Severity: important
> > > 
> > > Dear Maintainer,
> > > 
> > > Issue occure during iptables:i386 1.8.2-2 -> 1.8.2-2+b1 upgrade.
> > > 
> > > /var/lib/dpkg/info/iptables.postinst fail with message:
> > > 
> > > ln: failed to create symbolic link ''$'\t''
> > > /sbin/iptables-save': No such file or directory
> > > 
> > 
> > I can't reproduce the issue:
> >...
> > I didn't try in i386 because I don't have any machine (virtual or
> > physical) with that arch, maybe is a architecture specific bug in the
> > shell? Hard to believe to say the least.
> >...
> 
> I can reproduce the problem in a current amd64 unstable chroot.
> 
> #1007829 was a similar problem in arptables,
> I haven't checked how these are related.

That sym-link code was removed in 1.8.4-1, which was uploaded at the end
of 2019.

J.
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