[pkg-lxc-devel] Bug#982507: lxc-net/dnsmasq-base shouldn't be required

[Matt Corallo]

Package: lxc
Version: 1:4.0.6-1

I've been happily using lxc on debian for some time, without dnsmasq-base or lxc-net. The recent addition of 
dnsmasq-base and lxc-net as a required dependency is somewhat surprising, given lxc-net edits IP address information for 
lxc-attched bridges which were created outside of lxc-net, and dnsmasq doubly so given DSA 4844-1 was only a few days 
ago. Several commentors on IRC seemed equally surprised by this change.

Is there more information available for why lxc-net is now an explicit dependency and not optional or can this change be 
reverted?

Thanks for all the work keeping lxc working!
Matt