Bug#854040: unblock: iptables/1.6.1

[Arturo Borrero Gonzalez <arturo@debian.org>]

Package: release.debian.org
Severity: normal
User: release.debian.org@packages.debian.org
Usertags: unblock

Dear release team,

thanks for your awesome work with Debian. I really appreciate it.

In debian stretch/sid, we currently have iptables 1.6.0+snapshot20161117-5.

Upstream has released iptables 1.6.1, but by the time of the upstream release
I had no time to upload to unstable due to our freeze and the 10 days
testing migration delay.

I, hereby, ask for permission to upload iptables 1.6.1 to unstable targeting
debian stretch.

This request is previous to any effort by my side to package this new
upstream release, so I have no debdiff or the like.
However, I have counted that our package is ~17 commits behind the upstream
code.

There are no hidden interests in this request. Please, decide according
to your needs and the needs of Stretch.