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Re: MBF: Removal of iptables-legacy

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From Bastian Blank <waldi@debian.org>
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Subject Re: MBF: Removal of iptables-legacy
Date Sun, 23 Nov 2025 17:50:01 +0100
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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)"

Bastian

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Re: MBF: Removal of iptables-legacy Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> - 2025-11-23 16:20 +0100
  Re: MBF: Removal of iptables-legacy Bastian Blank <waldi@debian.org> - 2025-11-23 17:50 +0100
    Re: MBF: Removal of iptables-legacy Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> - 2025-11-24 15:20 +0100

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