From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 954DEC63797 for ; Sun, 15 Jan 2023 07:13:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S229752AbjAOHNv (ORCPT ); Sun, 15 Jan 2023 02:13:51 -0500 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:53904 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S229791AbjAOHNt (ORCPT ); Sun, 15 Jan 2023 02:13:49 -0500 Received: from mail.netfilter.org (mail.netfilter.org [217.70.188.207]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4ADC9A5D2 for ; Sat, 14 Jan 2023 23:13:48 -0800 (PST) Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2023 08:13:42 +0100 From: Pablo Neira Ayuso To: Arturo Borrero Gonzalez Cc: Phil Sutter , netfilter-devel Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] iptables 1.8.9 release Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org Hi Arturo, On Sat, Jan 14, 2023 at 10:18:56PM +0100, Arturo Borrero Gonzalez wrote: > On 1/12/23 12:20, Phil Sutter wrote: > > Hi! > > > > The Netfilter project proudly presents: > > > > iptables 1.8.9 > > > > Hi Phil, > > thanks for the release! > > I see the tarball includes now a etc/xtables.conf file [0]. Could you please clarify the expected usage of this file? > > Do we intend users to have this in their systems? If so, what for. > It appears to be in nftables native format, so who or what mechanisms would be responsible for reading it in a system that > has no nftables installed? > > Perhaps the file is only useful for development purposes? I think this file just slipped through while enabling `make distcheck' in a recent update, but let's wait for Phil to confirm this.