A corresponding packaging change needs to be made. The change landed already - lp:~allenap/maas/oops-did-it-again - can be released in 1.7.2 and will hopefully alleviate the issue. The packaging change, which will clean-up and remove dependencies, can come with 1.8.0. The reason for this is to reduce the immediate delta and testing overhead.
A corresponding packaging change needs to be made. The change landed already - lp:~allenap/maas/oops-did-it-again - can be released in 1.7.2 and will hopefully alleviate the issue. The packaging change, which will clean-up and remove dependencies, can come with 1.8.0. The reason for this is to reduce the immediate delta and testing overhead.