On 12/10/18 9:30 AM, Laurent Bigonville wrote: > On Sat, 1 Dec 2018 13:36:11 +0100 gregor herrmann <gre...@debian.org> > wrote: > >> On Sat, 27 Oct 2018 17:39:50 +0200, Laurent Bigonville wrote: >> >> > When running debsums -ac, it complains that: >> > >> > debsums: Error: symlink loop detected in path 'sbin/ebtables'. > Please file a bug against ebtables. >> > >> > So here is the bug report. >> >> I can't reproduce this (by installing the package and running >> debsums), and I don't see any symlinkery in the package either but I >> might miss somthing. >> >> What do see are alternatives [0] but they all seem to be in the >> iptables package and /sbin/ebtables doesn't seem to be involved. >> >> So maybe this is/was an iptables problem and maybe this was/is fixed >> (or maybe I have a to old iptables version). >> > >> Or is this another merged-/usr issue poppoing up? > > Alright, so it's indeed a problem with usrmerge and the fact that > ebtables package is NOT using the alternative for (/usr)/sbin/ebtables > > Apparently, iptables now adds an alternative to /usr/sbin/ebtables: > > update-alternatives \ > --install /usr/sbin/ebtables ebtables /usr/sbin/ebtables-nft 20 \ > --slave /usr/sbin/ebtables-restore ebtables-restore > /usr/sbin/ebtables-nft-restore \ > --slave /usr/sbin/ebtables-save ebtables-save > /usr/sbin/ebtables-nft-save > > But as the ebtables package is still providing a real executables in > /sbin/ebtables* ; with usr-merge it explodes. > > IMVHO, iptables package should provides "ebtables" (it's providing the > same CLI interface right?) and must breaks with the current version of > ebtables. And either ebtables must be kicked out of the archive (is this > really deprecated?) and/or use the alternatives system. > > It seems that the same problem exists with the aprtables package.... The > fact that iptables package started providing ebtables/arptables > executable without coordination is quite bad. > > Note there is also bug #913883 that is more than probably a duplicate of > this bug. > >
we are working both in arptables and ebtables and will upload soon.