Package: krb5-config Version: 1.18.3-6+deb11u1 Severity: normal Package krb5-user depends on bind9-host, and depends this ONLY to create the initial template/configuration if it does not exist already. This package is not needed for regular operations, only for postinst script, and even there, as it seems (I'm not 100% sure), it is optional.
Please denote bind9-host from Depends to Recommends. This will continue to install bind9-host for regular setups, and will allow avoiding this dependency at runtime when this is definitely not necessary. And while at it, verify that the postinst script works without host utility. Bind9-host pulls in a bunch of other libraries with frequent security updates, and making it a requiriment just for initial configuration is definitely an overkill. Especially since many times the configuration is made manually anyway. We had to create bind9-host-dummy package just to stop this annoyance. See also #855593 which is open since 2017.. Thanks, /mjt
