Comment 2 for bug 1998847

Thanks for reporting this bug Reinhard. I know we already had some discussions about the container ecosystem in Ubuntu and the way we ship those packages is not optimal for reverse dependencies but unfortunately is the best way to keep backporting them to old releases.

Since the library package is in universe, we could add those runtime dependencies to it without needing a promotion. The problem is when we backport the package to old releases, then those packages might not be available. As I do the backport I can take the burden to check those runtime dependencies availability when backporting it.

Reinhard, are you aware of other packages in the same situation?