Package: lxd
Severity: wishlist

Hello,

Following the discussion[1] on the Go mailing list. Please find this
bug for my suggestion to move the dnsmasq dependency to recommended.

For users who do not need a network solution managed by LXD, we cannot
install LXD without installing dnsmasq.
I suggest to move dnsmasq to recommended. For me, this corresponds to
what is mentioned in the paragraph "DEBIAN POLICY Recommends,
Suggests, and Enhances fields"[2] from The Debian Administrator's
Handbook

Most of debian user (I think) will not change option about recommended
packages and they are installed.
Related to LXD, most of Debian user will install dnsmasq with LXD and
for those who wish to not use it, we will be able to not install it.
I tested to break (mv /usr/sbin/dnsmasq /usr/sbin/dnsmasqZZZZ) dnsmasq
to check if LXD will have issue. I didn't found issue. All seems good.

I hope that other user will send their opinion

Sylvain

[1] - https://lists.debian.org/debian-go/2022/12/msg00006.html
[2] - 
https://debian-handbook.info/browse/stable/sect.package-meta-information.html

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