Re: connman: Connman won't run due to missing libxtables.so.7
Julien Cristau wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 26, 2013 at 07:04:16 -0800, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
>> Julien Cristau wrote:
>>> NAK. iptables in sid needs to add Breaks on the packages in wheezy that
>>> want libxtables.so.7. And 691180 should be reassigned to iptables.
[...]
>> To recap, iptables in squeeze and wheezy contain a shared library
>> (libxtables) used by other packages. The version in squeeze is
>>
>> /lib/libxtables.so.4
>>
>> The version in wheezy is
>>
>> /lib/libxtables.so.7
>>
>> This produces upgrade problems.
>
> Well then iptables in wheezy should have breaks on the packages in
> squeeze that link against libxtables.so.4, too...
What package expression can iptables/sid use to represent "packages
using libxtables built against iptables/wheezy"? Dependencies like
Breaks: connman (<< 1.0-1.2)
become useless as soon as a newer version of connman is in
wheezy-backports.
I don't know what constraint makes introducing a libxtables7 package a
bad thing to do, so I don't know how to avoid it when coming up with
an appropriate fix. One possibility would be to make iptables
'Provides: libxtables7' and to make shlibs create dependencies on
that.
That said, here's a patch adding appropriate Breaks for
squeeze->wheezy upgrades. Luckily not every package with a build-time
dependency on iptables-dev uses libxtables.
diff --git i/debian/changelog w/debian/changelog
index 6e7f55c2..eaf24993 100644
--- i/debian/changelog
+++ w/debian/changelog
@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+iptables (1.4.14-3.1) testing; urgency=low
+
+ * Non-maintainer upload.
+ * Add Breaks against iproute and xtables-addons-common versions
+ that relied on libxtables4. Closes: #691180
+
+ -- Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Sat, 26 Jan 2013 08:31:40 -0800
+
iptables (1.4.14-3) unstable; urgency=low
* Fixes iptables comment output error reported by Christoph Anton
diff --git i/debian/control w/debian/control
index 1e9d513c..32e26642 100644
--- i/debian/control
+++ w/debian/control
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ Homepage: http://www.netfilter.org/
Package: iptables
Architecture: any
Depends: ${misc:Depends}, ${shlibs:Depends}
+Breaks: iproute (<< 20120521-3), xtables-addons-common (<< 1.42-2)
Description: administration tools for packet filtering and NAT
These are the user-space administration tools for the Linux
kernel's netfilter and iptables. netfilter and iptables provide
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