Package: iptables Version: 1.8.2-1 Severity: important Dear Maintainer,
During an upgrade from 1.8.1-2 to 1.8.2-1 I got the following error: Setting up iptables (1.8.2-1) ... ln: failed to create symbolic link '/sbin/iptables': File exists dpkg: error processing package iptables (--configure): installed iptables package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: iptables needrestart is being skipped since dpkg has failed E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) Downgrading the package back to 1.8.1-2 fixed it. Manually deleting the files from /sbin also allows the 1.8.2-1 package to install. -- System Information: Debian Release: buster/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 4.18.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages iptables depends on: ii libc6 2.27-8 ii libip4tc0 1.8.2-1 ii libip6tc0 1.8.2-1 ii libiptc0 1.8.2-1 ii libmnl0 1.0.4-2 ii libnetfilter-conntrack3 1.0.7-1 ii libnfnetlink0 1.0.1-3+b1 ii libnftnl7 1.1.1-1 ii libxtables12 1.8.2-1 iptables recommends no packages. Versions of packages iptables suggests: ii kmod 25-1 -- no debconf information