Hi Steffen, Yes, that would be great. I didn't even know there was a three tier of mandatory/recommended/suggested packages, or I would have suggested the same solution you proposed to begin with. I am a bit new to this so I would be happy to help in the way I can if you want to talk me through it. Feel also free to write to me on my personal email account.
Giulio On Sun, Jun 14, 2020 at 6:51 PM Steffen Möller <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Giulio, > > How would you like the idea to have both Perl and Python as recommended > and only leave the latex as suggested? What should then happen is that > we place this as a bug report against bcftools. The maintainer (should) > see(s) this and you will be informed when the upload happened that > implements your suggestion. I expect this to be associated with an > upcoming new upstream version, but, hey, we have the Covid-19 hackathon > this week, feel free have this as your first active contribution if > there are no ultimate negative vibes emerging on this list about a > demotion of the strict dependency on Perl. I happily talk you through. > To shorten bits up, I have just created the bug report - > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=962834 . > > Thank you tons for your feedback. Please keep it coming. > > Steffen >

