iptables

[Jon Dowland]

Rocco Stanzione wrote:
> The iptables package hasn't seen any meaningful change in a very long time, 
> while the upstream code and the corresponding netfilter code in the kernel 
> have undergone something close to a revolution.  The current package is 
> unnecessarily complicated and difficult to maintain.
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> I would like to part ways with Debian on the iptables package in the interest 
> of simplifying the build process and moving forward with some of the new, 
> very nice features available in modern kernels and userland tools.

Have you spoken to the debian iptables maintainer(s)? Perhaps they will 
be interested in recasting the packaging as well.