Bug#1007829: [pkg-netfilter-team] Bug#1007829: arptables - Fails to install: Too many levels of symbolic links

2022-04-07 Thread Thomas Goirand
Hi Alberto, Thanks for your reply. I've therefore uploaded in the non-DELAYED queue. I've also pushed the changes to Salsa in a branch called "ack-nmu". Weirdly, I couldn't create a merge request out of it, so you can simply fetch that branch and merge into master and then delete that branch.

Bug#1007829: [pkg-netfilter-team] Bug#1007829: arptables - Fails to install: Too many levels of symbolic links

2022-04-06 Thread Alberto Molina Coballes
Hi Thomas and thanks for resolving the bug. A few days ago I tried to upload a new version fixing the bug, but it was silently ignored. At the moment I'm very busy and I don't have time to debug the problem by uploading packages to the archive, so your help to solve the bug with a NMU is welcome

Bug#1007829: [pkg-netfilter-team] Bug#1007829: arptables - Fails to install: Too many levels of symbolic links: debdiff for NMU in DELAYED/2

2022-04-06 Thread Arturo Borrero Gonzalez
On 4/6/22 13:29, Thomas Goirand wrote: Hi, As per discussion on IRC and check of the existing prerm, arptables already has the logic in prerm to clean-up old symlinks, so I didn't touch it. Discussing on #debian-devel, it was agreed we need to clean-up eventual remainings of the

Bug#1007829: [pkg-netfilter-team] Bug#1007829: arptables - Fails to install: Too many levels of symbolic links: debdiff for NMU in DELAYED/2

2022-04-06 Thread Thomas Goirand
Hi, As per discussion on IRC and check of the existing prerm, arptables already has the logic in prerm to clean-up old symlinks, so I didn't touch it. Discussing on #debian-devel, it was agreed we need to clean-up eventual remainings of the symlink, if they point to /usr/sbin/*, so that's

Bug#1007829: [pkg-netfilter-team] Bug#1007829: arptables - Fails to install: Too many levels of symbolic links

2022-04-06 Thread Thomas Goirand
Hi, Please find attached debdiff to fix this bug. I'll be uploading this to DELAYED/2 queue, as this is affecting a lot of people/packages and we need a fix fast. Please let me know if you prefer to fix it yourself and you wish me to "dcut rm" my upload. Cheers, Thomas Goirand (zigo)diff

Bug#1007829: [pkg-netfilter-team] Bug#1007829: arptables - Fails to install: Too many levels of symbolic links

2022-03-17 Thread Alberto Molina Coballes
Thanks for reporting Bastian, I've reproduced the issue, but it seems not related to dpkg, arptables fails to install when iptables isn't installed. I must review and update arptables postinst script where alternatives are used. Alberto