Hello Simon,
i am also seeing this exactly error. I was able to nail it down to the very
recently update of package dns-root-data in sid.
When newer Version of dns-root-data is installed dnsmasq will not start any more
with the error messages given.
% policy dns-root-data
dns-root-data:
Installed: 2015052300+h+1
Candidate: 2017020200
Version table:
2017020200 500
500 http://ftp2.de.debian.org/debian unstable/main amd64 Packages
*** 2015052300+h+1 500
500 http://ftp2.de.debian.org/debian stretch/main amd64 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
kind regards,
Thilo
