[Python-modules-team] Bug#860986: python-iptables library did not work

[Anthony Lee]

Package: python-iptables
Version: 0.11.0-2
Severity: serious
Justification: required

Dear Maintainer:

  The python-iptables library did not work on my Debian 9. The problem occured likes the following transcript:

-------------- Terminal Output --------------------------------------

<0> [anthony at debian-lmde ~] $ python
Python 2.7.13 (default, Jan 19 2017, 14:48:08) 
[GCC 6.3.0 20170118] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import iptc
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/iptc/__init__.py", line 10, in <module>
    from iptc.ip4tc import (is_table_available, Table, Chain, Rule, Match, Target,
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/iptc/ip4tc.py", line 13, in <module>
    from .xtables import (XT_INV_PROTO, NFPROTO_IPV4, XTablesError, xtables,
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/iptc/xtables.py", line 711, in <module>
    _throw = _lib_xtwrapper.throw_exception
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'throw_exception'
>>> exit()

--------------- End of terminal output ------------------------------

  The problem occurs when importing the library and invokes traceback, but the traceback message did not works on me. Hope for early solved.


Here is my system information below:

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.0
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64
 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages python-iptables depends on:
ii  libc6       2.24-9
ii  python      2.7.13-2
pn  python:any  <none>

python-iptables recommends no packages.

Versions of packages python-iptables suggests:
pn  python-iptables-doc  <none>

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