[Pkg-nginx-maintainers] Bug#1023382: nginx-light: dependency on iproute2

[Yves-Alexis Perez]

Package: nginx-light
Version: 1.18.0-6.1+deb11u2
Severity: normal

Hi,

I finally updated a nginx buster LXC to bullseye (this report is done on
my laptop so don't pay attention to the System information below). By
doing so I had to install iproute2 on that container because nginx-light
depends on it.

I'm unsure why that dependency was added (I couldn't find the
explanation on changelog.Debian) but in my case the container ip
configuration is done externally so there's not much which can be done.

Would it be possible to explain the reason for the dependency and maybe
demote it to recommends?

Regards,
-- 
Yves-Alexis

-- System Information:
Debian Release: bookworm/sid
  APT prefers unstable-debug
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'unstable'), (450, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 6.0.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_FIRMWARE_WORKAROUND
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages nginx-light depends on:
ii  iproute2                6.0.0-1
ii  libc6                   2.36-3
ii  libcrypt1               1:4.4.28-2
pn  libnginx-mod-http-echo  <none>
ii  libpcre3                2:8.39-14
ii  libssl3                 3.0.7-1
pn  nginx-common            <none>
ii  zlib1g                  1:1.2.11.dfsg-4.1

nginx-light recommends no packages.

Versions of packages nginx-light suggests:
pn  nginx-doc  <none>