[pkg-netfilter-team] Bug#1032315: provide separate packages for legacy and nft iptables

[Jeremy Sowden]

On 2023-03-03, at 16:25:06 +0100, Harald Dunkel wrote:
> Package: iptables
> Version: 1.8.9-2
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> Please move legacy iptables into separate packages to support
> installing just the nft versions. We will never get rid of legacy
> iptables/ip6tables if it is packaged together with nft for each
> release.

Been giving the iptables packaging a bit of a polish, including a fix
for:

  https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1038305

which I will push shortly, and I started looking at this bug.  Still a
bit of a newbie, but I presume that the procedure would be to split the
contents of the iptables package between new iptables-nft and
iptables-legacy packages, retaining a transitional iptables package
which depended on the two new ones.  If that's correct and no one
objects, I'll get on with it.

J.
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