Bug#918497: RFS: arptables/0.0.4+snapshot20181021-1 - ARP table administration

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

On Mon, 7 Jan 2019 17:59:57 +0100 Adam Borowski <kilobyte@angband.pl> wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 06, 2019 at 06:31:01PM +0100, Alberto Molina Coballes wrote:
> >  * Package name    : arptables
> >    Version         : 0.0.4+snapshot20181021-1
> 
> >   * [2c7c7c6] New upstream version 0.0.4+snapshot20181021
> >   * [c6b2324] d/patches: Adapt the default patch to the latest upstream version
> >   * [3076713] arptables: introduce /sbin compatibility symlinks
> >   * [4108b0d] arptables: introduce alternatives for /usr/sbin/arptables
> >     (Closes: #916106)
> >   * [f7b48be] d/control: bump std-version to 4.3.0
> 
> Hi!
> I'm afraid the package fails to remove:
> 
>   Removing arptables (0.0.4+snapshot20181021-1) ...
>   dpkg-query: no packages found matching iptables
>   dpkg: error processing package arptables (--remove):
>    installed arptables package pre-removal script subprocess returned error exit status 1
>   Errors were encountered while processing:
>    arptables
>   E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
> 
> It's run with "set -e", thus dies on "variable=$(false)".
> 
> You may want to try various piuparts scenarios, and/or abuse chroots a bit,
> as such transitions are quite tricky to get right.
> 

I went ahead and sponsored the upload. I didn't check piuparts :-(

Please @alberto, patch the package and prepare a new upload.

I'm closing this RFS bug now.