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
