On Tue, 22 Nov 2016 09:29:26 +0000 Simon McVittie <s...@debian.org> wrote: > Package: release.debian.org > Severity: normal > User: release.debian....@packages.debian.org > Usertags: transition > X-Debbugs-Cc: iptab...@packages.debian.org > Forwarded: https://release.debian.org/transitions/html/auto-iptables.html > > src:iptables contains libxtables, which bumped SONAME recently, > starting a small uncoordinated transition. For extra confusion, > libxtables.so.12 was briefly shipped in libxtables11 (#844755); > after that was fixed, until today's upload, libxtables12 was missing > the required Breaks/Replaces to take over libxtables.so.12 from > the versions of libxtables11 that suffered from #844755 (#845278). > > At a minimum, this is going to need a round of binNMUs to get > everything correctly depending on libxtables12. > > The auto-generated > <https://release.debian.org/transitions/html/auto-iptables.html> > appears to be correct, or here is what reportbug suggested: > > title = "libxtables12"; > is_affected = .depends ~ "libxtables11" | .depends ~ "libxtables12"; > is_good = .depends ~ "libxtables12"; > is_bad = .depends ~ "libxtables11";
No idea how to express this in ben syntax, but Recommends need to be looked at too. iproute2 has some modules depend on libxtables (optional, and thus Recommends, not Depends). Saludos