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
>

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