Bug#541979: Missing headers in iptables-dev

[Benoît Knecht <benoit.knecht@fsfe.org>]

Hi Adam,

I had a look at your package, and made a few tests regarding the missing
iptables headers. They are present in the iptables-dev source, but
somehow not installed in the binary package. So I built a modified
version of iptables-dev, where all I did is add these lines to
debian/iptables-dev.install:

  include/*.h usr/include
  include/iptables/*.h /usr/include/iptables
  include/net/netfilter/*.h usr/include/net/netfilter

(Probably not the most elegant way to do it, but sufficient for this
test.)

After installing that version of iptables-dev and removing
debian/include from your package, I was able to successfully build it.

So I think you should file a bug on iptables and see if the maintainer
would be willing to include those files (I really don't know if it makes
sense, otherwise why doesn't upstream do it by default?), and if not,
see if you can work out a better solution with them.

Cheers,

-- 
Benoît Knecht