[Pkg-netfilter-devel] sponsor of iptables 1.6.0-3

Arturo Borrero Gonzalez arturo.borrero.glez at gmail.com
Wed Jul 27 09:17:15 UTC 2016


On 14 July 2016 at 03:02, Michael Biebl <biebl at debian.org> wrote:
>
> Small nit: Please use consistent identation for your Depends.
> The indentation of iptables' Depends and iptables-dev's Depends is off.
> Please use spaces everywhere consistently and not a tabs+spaces mix
>
> iptables-dev: You don't need the libiptc0, libip4tc0, libip6tc0 in
> Depends, they will be pulled in by their corresponding -dev package.
>
> Also, please consider lowering the priority of the library packages to
> optional. I know lintian will complain about that not being policy
> compliant, but I think installing libraries because of their priority is
> a stupid idea (and discussion is currently ongoing to fix the debian
> policy in that regard).
>
> The library packages should all probably be Multi-Arch: same, otherwise
> marking iptables M-A: foreign is pretty pointless.
>
> libiptc0, libip4tc0 and libip6tc0 don't need a
> Replaces: iptables (<< 1.6.0-3)
> Breaks: iptables (<< 1.6.0-3)
>
> You moved the library files to multi-arch paths, so there is no file
> conflict there with the old iptables package.
> The -dev packages are different, because they have conflicting paths
> with the old iptables-dev package.
>

Thanks Michael,

just uploaded to mentors a new version with all of this changes.

Would you please review and sponsor?

best regards.

-- 
Arturo Borrero González



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