On 07 juil. 2023 10:10, Helmut Grohne <hel...@subdivi.de> wrote: > Hi, > > On Fri, Jul 07, 2023 at 09:46:39AM +0200, Christian Marillat wrote: >> Severity: serious > > I believe that this is the wrong severity for this bug and it should be > downgraded. As I am not otherwise involved with this package, I'll leave > that up to maintainer and/or release team.
>From Debian policy 7.2 : ,---- | "Recommends" | This declares a strong, but not absolute, dependency. | | The "Recommends" field should list packages that would be found | together with this one in all but unusual installations. `---- For now libheif1 without the right plugin is unusable. >> For people like me with Install-Recommends set to false, >> no plugins are installed and I spend some time to understand why >> program like didikam, thunar or imagemagick was unable to display any >> .heic image files. > > I think this is working as intended. As a shared library, libheif1 tends > to be pulled into lots of dependency trees. For instance navit > transitively depends on it without there being a need for heif plugins. > You can also use gimp in lots of ways in the absence of heif plugins. We > typically cannot turn the dependency of this (often unused) shared > library into a recommendation, but we can minimize the impact of that > dependency by moving the plugins to a different package. That's what is > being done here. I see nothing in teh Debian policy sating that we need to minimize dependecies. >> Total size for all plugins is really small 384K >> >> The library itself is 648K >> >> Please remove these plugins packages and restore as it was before in 1.15.1-1 > > Would you rather consider enabling the installation of recommended > packages? A joke ? Christian
