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   Message 1,672 of 2,884   
   Colin Watson to Bastian Blank   
   Re: MBF: Removal of iptables-legacy   
   24 Nov 25 15:20:01   
   
   XPost: linux.debian.devel   
   From: cjwatson@debian.org   
      
   On Sun, Nov 23, 2025 at 05:25:09PM +0100, Bastian Blank wrote:   
   >On Sun, Nov 23, 2025 at 03:12:27PM +0000, Colin Watson wrote:   
   >> I wonder how many of these are conditional code in packages that also   
   >> support nft?  For example, incus caught my eye in your list: it has both   
   >> xtables and nftables drivers, and it prefers nftables if it's available.  It   
   >> doesn't look as though anything would need to change in that package to cope   
   >> with a kernel without iptables support.   
   >   
   >The source check matched this reference to the legacy stuff:   
   >   
   >| test/suites/container_devices_nic_bridged_filtering.sh:            echo   
   "==> SKIP: ebtables must be legacy version (try update-alternatives --set   
   ebtables /usr/sbin/ebtables-legacy)"   
      
   That code is within a [ "$firewallDriver" = "xtables" ] check, which   
   will be false on a modern system.   
      
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