Hi Arno,
thanks for your bugreport and your (continued) interest in the Debian package of you firewall script. On Sat, Feb 24, 2007 at 02:09:05PM +0100, Arno van Amersfoort wrote: > Package: arno-iptables-firewall > Version: 1.8.8c-1 > > The current version has several important bugs that have been corrected > in the latest upstream version (1.8.8h). These are: > > 1) It contains some major bugfixes in the plugin system. The plugin > system in version 1.8.8c as broken causing it to be rendered completely > useless if you use more than one plugin or when newer type plugins are > used. I updated the package to version 1.8.8.h, so the next upload should fix this problem. > 2) It contains an improvement/fix that errors and warnings get send to > stderr, were version 1.8.8c sends this to stdout. > > 3) Some cosmetic fixes/improvements. > > 4) The order of some variables in the config-file was changed (the MODEM > & LAN sections are swapped), causing MODEM_INTERNAL_NET="$INTERNAL_NET" > not to work as INTERNAL_NET wasn't specified yet . This is a regression > bug that was introduced some around version 1.8.8c. > > The latest upstream version (1.8.8h) has been extensively tested and > currently has no pending bug (reports). I therefor strongly recommend to > sync the current Etch version (1.8.8c) with the latest upstream version > (1.8.8h). I'm going to contact my sponsor to get the new package version uploaded ASAP. When it has arrived in the archive I will contact the release team to ask whether it is possible to get it into etch. Thanks, Michael -- GPG key: 1024D/3144BE0F Michael Hanke http://apsy.gse.uni-magdeburg.de/hanke ICQ: 48230050
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