My use case is docker images. I basically cannot use the bcftools debian package anymore to build containers as it balloons the size of the final image. Appreciate forwarding to the Debian Med team. Thank you. -Giulio
On Tue, Jun 18, 2024 at 3:03 PM Andreas Tille <andr...@an3as.eu> wrote: > Hi Giulio, > > I'm forwarding this to the Debian Med team since as DPL I have basically > stalled my packaging work. > > My gut feeling tells me that 500MB are not really much on a > bioinformatitions machine - specifically since python3-matplotlib seems > to be nearly a "default installation" on scientists computers. But well, > maybe Recommends are fine and possibly some Test-Depends need to be > added (not checked!) > > Kind regards > Andreas. > > Am Tue, Jun 18, 2024 at 02:37:48PM -0400 schrieb Giulio Genovese: > > Hi Andreas, > > > > To address bug #1069234 > > <https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1069234> the bcftools > > package acquired, through commit a46c2e25 > > < > https://salsa.debian.org/med-team/bcftools/-/commit/a46c2e2567ffcbac0099f102c6bcac2568f100a8 > >, > > two new dependencies: > > - python3-gffutils > > - python3-matplotlib > > This causes the size of the package dependencies to explode from <50MB to > > >500MB. > > > > As bcftools is mostly a C software, I believe the most appropriate > approach > > is to have those dependencies as recommended dependencies, so that the > > package can be installed in a minimalistic fashion with the apt-get > > --no-install-recommends command while not affecting other use cases, > > similarly to how it was done for the bwa package in commit e3fef43e > > < > https://salsa.debian.org/med-team/bwa/-/commit/e3fef43e17a26dd0c1c7d7ac81333a0e9c6367b3 > > > > where perl was demoted to a recommended dependency. > > > > I hope this change can be included for the next release. Thank you! > > > > Giulio > > -- > https://fam-tille.de >
