Bug#761395: Please provide a backport of nftables for Wheezy
❦ 15 septembre 2014 10:50 +0200, Arturo Borrero Gonzalez arturo.borrero.g...@gmail.com : as the title says, it would be nice if a backport of nftables was provided for Wheezy, as backports of kernels 3.13+ are already available for it. nftables 0.3 is a very young version. I don't think it worth backporting. Also, the kernel in backports lacks of some key improvements of the framework. I would recommend you to wait until next releases of nftables (kernel, libnftnl, nft). I would also be interested to see a backport of nftables. The kernel in wheezy-backports is 3.16.3. Is it missing something? If yes, what should be added? -- Use recursive procedures for recursively-defined data structures. - The Elements of Programming Style (Kernighan Plauger) signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Bug#761395: Please provide a backport of nftables for Wheezy
On 30 September 2014 10:29, Vincent Bernat ber...@debian.org wrote: ❦ 15 septembre 2014 10:50 +0200, Arturo Borrero Gonzalez arturo.borrero.g...@gmail.com : as the title says, it would be nice if a backport of nftables was provided for Wheezy, as backports of kernels 3.13+ are already available for it. nftables 0.3 is a very young version. I don't think it worth backporting. Also, the kernel in backports lacks of some key improvements of the framework. I would recommend you to wait until next releases of nftables (kernel, libnftnl, nft). I would also be interested to see a backport of nftables. The kernel in wheezy-backports is 3.16.3. Is it missing something? If yes, what should be added? There is not something missing. TL;DR: I would propose to backport the *next* release of nftables, if any. nftables 0.3 will be soon superseded and obsoleted by a new release. As said before, I don't think it worth backporting. My main concern is to invest time in backporting stuff (not just the nftables package, but also the depends, ie libnftnl) just to find that a new release has come and all your playing, testing and bug reports for v0.3-bpo are no longer meaningful. I guess the next nftables release will happen with linux kernel 3.18. That will be indeed a good moment to backport to wheezy, if any moment is good at this stage.. I'm considering to don't let nftables to enter jessie-stable. nftables v0.3 has nothing to do in a 'stable' system. For me, nftables in stable means: please, use nftables to deploy your next firewall. At the moment, nftables is not stable software and you should keep using iptables. Please, let me know your thoughts. regards. -- Arturo Borrero González -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#761395: Please provide a backport of nftables for Wheezy
❦ 30 septembre 2014 14:07 +0200, Arturo Borrero Gonzalez arturo.borrero.g...@gmail.com : I would also be interested to see a backport of nftables. The kernel in wheezy-backports is 3.16.3. Is it missing something? If yes, what should be added? There is not something missing. TL;DR: I would propose to backport the *next* release of nftables, if any. nftables 0.3 will be soon superseded and obsoleted by a new release. As said before, I don't think it worth backporting. My main concern is to invest time in backporting stuff (not just the nftables package, but also the depends, ie libnftnl) just to find that a new release has come and all your playing, testing and bug reports for v0.3-bpo are no longer meaningful. I guess the next nftables release will happen with linux kernel 3.18. That will be indeed a good moment to backport to wheezy, if any moment is good at this stage.. I'm considering to don't let nftables to enter jessie-stable. nftables v0.3 has nothing to do in a 'stable' system. For me, nftables in stable means: please, use nftables to deploy your next firewall. At the moment, nftables is not stable software and you should keep using iptables. Please, let me know your thoughts. I am fine with that. Thanks! -- Make sure special cases are truly special. - The Elements of Programming Style (Kernighan Plauger) signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Bug#761395: Please provide a backport of nftables for Wheezy
On 13 September 2014 16:07, Antonis Kanouras anto...@metadosis.gr wrote: as the title says, it would be nice if a backport of nftables was provided for Wheezy, as backports of kernels 3.13+ are already available for it. Hi, thanks for your interest. nftables 0.3 is a very young version. I don't think it worth backporting. Also, the kernel in backports lacks of some key improvements of the framework. I would recommend you to wait until next releases of nftables (kernel, libnftnl, nft). regards. -- Arturo Borrero González -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#761395: Please provide a backport of nftables for Wheezy
Source: nftables Version: 0.3-1 Severity: wishlist Hello, as the title says, it would be nice if a backport of nftables was provided for Wheezy, as backports of kernels 3.13+ are already available for it. Thank you for your work! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
