[pkg-lxc-devel] Bug#908050: lxc: Please drop recommends on bridge-utils

[Andreas Henriksson]

Source: lxc
Version: 1:2.0.9-6
Severity: wishlist

Dear Maintainer,

I've tried investigating why lxc has a Recommends: bridge-utils, but
unfortunately haven't found anything information why it's there or
why it was added initially.

I can only find usage of the 'brctl' command in:
1: ./templates/lxc-gentoo.in
2: ./src/tests/lxc-test-usernic.in

The second one seems to only conditionally be installed on ubuntu
according to src/tests/Makefile.am, so not relevant. I'm not sure how
relevant the first one is either, but I'll include a trivial (untested)
patch you can drop into debian/patches if you'd like it to use bridge
(from iproute2) instead.

I hope this means bridge-utils can be dropped (or replaced by iproute2
if needed). If you know of any reason not to drop bridge-utils I'd like
to hear about it!

Regards,
Andreas Henriksson
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