[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#918472: Please remove Recommends against ebtables

[Laurent Bigonville]

On Sun, 06 Jan 2019 13:02:17 +0100 Laurent Bigonville <bigon at debian.org> 
wrote:

 > Hi,
 >
 > Recent versions of the iptables package is shipping a ebtables
 > executable.
 >
 > This executable seems to provide the same parameters as the one shipped
 > in the "ebtables" package.
 >
 > IMHO, that recommends can now be removed as the executable will be
 > present by pulling the iptables package which is a hard dependency.

In addition to that, you need to be sure that the used ebtables/iptables 
binaries are the one installed to /usr/sbin and not the symlinks from 
/sbin (this requires iptables >= 1.8.1-1)