[Pkg-netfilter-devel] Bug#437407: Bug#437407: closed by Arturo Borrero Gonzalez <arturo.borrero.glez at gmail.com> ()

[積丹尼 Dan Jacobson]

>>>>> "ABG" == Arturo Borrero Gonzalez <arturo.borrero.glez at gmail.com> writes:

ABG> I guess that files is a leftover from an older iptables package.

I guess that must be the case.

ABG> Could you please run dpkg -S /etc/default/iptables ?

# dpkg -S /etc/default/iptables
dpkg-query: no path found matching pattern /etc/default/iptables

ABG> Your system seems to hold that file since 2002, which is 14 years...

And probably a lot of other people's systems have it still there too.
Even now with
# apt-cache policy $@
iptables:
  Installed: 1.6.0-2
installed.

So you might want to clean it up for them one day.