Package: gnome-control-center Version: 1:48.4-1~deb13u1 Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected]
Dear Maintainer, Support for HEIF thumbnail generation has been introduced as a Depends on the gnome-control-center package in this commit: https://salsa.debian.org/gnome-team/gnome-control-center/-/commit/2680a789e11e23b598fd083d202150098317bbf4 To fix this Debian bug: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=981757 This makes the distribution of GNOME difficult for Debian Blends that want to avoid distributing the H265 codec library as it can be problematic. Since there are no hard build dependencies on HEIF, I would suggest to move the following two dependencies from Depends to Recommends: - heif-gdk-pixbuf - heif-thumbnailer This way one can skip HEIF support by using the --no-install-recommends option. See also this bug for more context on the listed dependencies and the original need for HEIC thumbnails: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=981538 Thanks, Agathe.
