Once upon a time, James Hogarth <james.hogarth@gmail.com> said:
> You're correct that this isn't covering BR situations but I didn't want the
> scope of this to blow out to the less reasonable.
>
> First phase let's get the package off systems where it's not absolutely
> required or requested by the user...
>
> Then BR can be cleaned up in the background without affecting user systems.

Packages that BR net-tools (or its commands) may be expecting it to be
installed without explicitly specifying an install dependency, and just
happen to work because net-tools is pulled in by other deps.  The BRs
should be fixed as part of this change, or there may be unexpected
breakage.