Package: fail2ban
Version: 1.1.0-7
Severity: normal
Hello,
Please considering bumping python3-setuptools from Recommends to Depends.
Without it, the default configuration fails to start:
(journal)
Jan 11 11:07:30 jubjub systemd[1]: Started fail2ban.service - Fail2Ban
Service.
Jan 11 11:07:30 jubjub fail2ban-server[3163989]: Server ready
Jan 11 11:07:31 jubjub systemd[1]: fail2ban.service: Main process exited,
code=exited, status=255/EXCEPTION
Jan 11 11:07:31 jubjub systemd[1]: fail2ban.service: Failed with result
'exit-code'.
(fail2ban.log)
2025-01-11 11:07:30,988 fail2ban.server [3163989]: INFO
--------------------------------------------------
2025-01-11 11:07:30,989 fail2ban.server [3163989]: INFO Starting
Fail2ban v1.1.0
2025-01-11 11:07:30,989 fail2ban.observer [3163989]: INFO Observer
start...
2025-01-11 11:07:30,990 fail2ban.database [3163989]: INFO
Connected to fail2ban persistent database '/var/lib/fail2ban/fail2ban.sqlite3'
2025-01-11 11:07:30,991 fail2ban.jail [3163989]: INFO Creating
new jail 'sshd'
2025-01-11 11:07:30,991 fail2ban.jail [3163989]: ERROR Backend
'systemd' failed to initialize due to No module named 'distutils'
2025-01-11 11:07:30,991 fail2ban.jail [3163989]: ERROR Failed
to initialize any backend for Jail 'sshd'
[snip]
-- System Information:
Debian Release: trixie/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 6.12.5-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8),
LANGUAGE=en_AU:en
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages fail2ban depends on:
ii python3 3.12.8-1
ii python3-systemd 235-1+b5
Versions of packages fail2ban recommends:
ii iptables 1.8.11-2
ii nftables 1.1.1-1
pn python3-pyinotify <none>
ii python3-setuptools 75.6.0-1
ii whois 5.5.23
Versions of packages fail2ban suggests:
pn mailx <none>
pn monit <none>
pn sqlite3 <none>
pn system-log-daemon <none>
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