But silently overriding isn't a solution. > if you ask the package to save the rules it will save them, it is the > expected behaviour
But overriding isn't expected. Then warn the user about that overriding. And one other bug is that it tries to "save rules" and ask about that even if there are not active rules. > iptables rules are order dependent I know but the user need to care about it not a package maintainer.