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Summary: Unnecessary Requires - shorewall and tcpwrappers

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=781341

Summary: Unnecessary Requires - shorewall and tcpwrappers Product: Fedora Version: rawhide Platform: All OS/Version: Linux Status: NEW Severity: high Priority: unspecified Component: fail2ban AssignedTo: axel.thimm@atrpms.net ReportedBy: vogel@folz.de QAContact: extras-qa@fedoraproject.org CC: herrold@owlriver.com, mattdm@mattdm.org, axel.thimm@atrpms.net, tim@niemueller.de, vogel@folz.de, jonathan.underwood@gmail.com, ruben@rubenkerkhof.com, wdierkes@rackspace.com, triage@lists.fedoraproject.org, maxamillion@fedoraproject.org, voronin.andrey@gmail.com, bugzilla.redhat.com@ewood.users.cementhorizon.com Estimated Hours: 0.0 Classification: Fedora Story Points: --- Clone Of: 244275 Type: --- Regression: --- Mount Type: --- Documentation: ---

+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #244275 +++

Description of problem (copied from Bug #244275): fail2ban doesn't require shorewall to function, and in fact, as we ship it, it makes use of the Fedora firewall - installing an extra firewall which is the not used in the default configuration is a bit gratuitous and confusing to the user.

Also, the Requires: tcpwrappers isn't needed unless the user decides to enable the tcpwrapper action (disabled by default)

Additional information: Bug #244275 contains suggestions and possible patches for a fix, but was closed with NOTABUG as noted in the comment from the EPEL maintainer: --- Additional comment from maxamillion@fedoraproject.org on 2012-01-12 22:46:49 EST ---

Since this is just the EPEL package and I don't maintain fail2ban for Fedora, I will be keeping it in line with Fedora proper. Please feel free to discuss this with the Fedora package maintainer.

As I wrote in some comments in Bug #244275, I'm interested in a fix for Fedora, which is why I file this bug now.