Package: python3-iptables Version: 0.11.0-1 Severity: normal python-iptables fails to load, as it cannot find the xtables-directory
> >>> import iptc > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> > File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/iptc/__init__.py", line 10, in <module> > from iptc.ip4tc import (is_table_available, Table, Chain, Rule, Match, > Target, > File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/iptc/ip4tc.py", line 13, in <module> > from .xtables import (XT_INV_PROTO, NFPROTO_IPV4, XTablesError, xtables, > File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/iptc/xtables.py", line 704, in <module> > raise XTablesError("can't find directory with extensions; " > iptc.xtables.XTablesError: can't find directory with extensions; please set > XTABLES_LIBDIR it works if i manually set the XTABLES_LIBDIR to /usr/lib/x86_64/xtables, as suggested by the error-message. however, the package should of course be able to find the xtables extensions by itself, without user-intervention. this is true for both python2 and python3 flavours of the package. -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.6.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages python3-iptables depends on: ii libc6 2.23-5 ii python3 3.5.1-4 pn python3:any <none> python3-iptables recommends no packages. Versions of packages python3-iptables suggests: pn python-iptables-doc <none> -- no debconf information