[Pkg-netfilter-devel] sponsor of iptables 1.6.0-3

[Arturo Borrero Gonzalez]

On 8 July 2016 at 05:51, Neutron Soutmun <neutrons at debian.org> wrote:
>
> The "xtables-multi" and "ip{,6}tables*" are installed in /sbin.
> I'm not quite sure that the initial intention of the iptables maintainer
> to install iptables and related libs in /sbin and /lib as they are
> required for the boot or rescue the system or not.
>

iptables is not required to boot or rescue the system.
I couldn't find a single reason for iptables to live in /lib.

So, it makes no sense to have it there.

Moreover, with usrmerge [0], this discussion is just pointless :-)

best regards

[0] https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/TheCaseForTheUsrMerge/

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Arturo Borrero González