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nftables provides python bindings; it uses setuptools to install them.
We currently install those bindings by telling the nftables buildsystem,
autotools, to install the python bindings.
However, we do not pass any of the environment variables that are needed
for setuptools packages. When host-python-setuptools is installed before
nftables is built [0], this breaks the system at runtime, as the
bindings are not installed; only the egg is, resulting in runtime errors
like:
# python -c 'import nftables'
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'nftables'
Upstream has been doing some changes on their python handling, but it is
not in a released version yet, and we can't backport those changes
either, due to other big changes.
Instead, we split the pyhon bindings to their own package.
For legacy handling, we make that new package default to y, so that
existing (def)config still work. The only novelty is that it can be
disabled now.
Many thanks to Julien for testing and finding the offending dependency,
to James for suggesting the package split, and to Adam for, well,
trigerring the issue in the first place! ;-p
Note: a git bisect of the issue turns up 72 candidates for the breakage,
all around the time we dropped python2 support in early 2022; the last
known-good commit is
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