fail2ban still depends on iptables

[peci1]

Maintainer: @erdoukki Environment: git

Description: fail2ban still depends on iptables instead of firewall4.

It seems there are nftables configs installed with it, so it should be easy to switch the dependency. However, downstream users will need to manually re-specify their actions.

[BKPepe]

Several packages, including fail2ban are still using iptables for various reasons:

• 1) The guy who added the package no longer use it / do not have time to look at it In the case of fail2ban, a recent commit in this repository, which is relevant, is from last year, and upstream is releasing a new version. This could be a solution: someone from the community steps in as a volunteer tries to keep it up-to-date or sends a pull request to use nftables.

• 2) Package is no longer maintained in upstream (not relevant for this package), downstream Solution for this: rather remove those packages, which are out of date and not maintained in upstream.

This issue is somehow duplicated to https://github.com/openwrt/packages/issues/16818, where you can find a list of packages that are still using iptables, and as you can see, it is a quite a shortlist. Any help is appreciated.

[peci1]

I think the problem is just the declared dependency. fail2ban already provides nftables-based actions. So the only thing that is needed (AFAIK) is to drop the iptables dependency in OpenWRT. Is this a good way to proceed? Should I prepare a PR?