Hi again, Am Tue, Jun 18, 2024 at 04:04:21PM -0400 schrieb Giulio Genovese: > My use case is docker images. I basically cannot use the bcftools debian > package anymore to build containers as it balloons the size of the final > image. Appreciate forwarding to the Debian Med team. Thank you. -Giulio
Sounds sensible. Would you mind summarising all the reasons you gave in some bug report (`reporbug bcftools`) to make sure it does not get forgotten? Thank you Andreas. > On Tue, Jun 18, 2024 at 3:03 PM Andreas Tille <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi Giulio, > > > > I'm forwarding this to the Debian Med team since as DPL I have basically > > stalled my packaging work. > > > > My gut feeling tells me that 500MB are not really much on a > > bioinformatitions machine - specifically since python3-matplotlib seems > > to be nearly a "default installation" on scientists computers. But well, > > maybe Recommends are fine and possibly some Test-Depends need to be > > added (not checked!) > > > > Kind regards > > Andreas. > > > > Am Tue, Jun 18, 2024 at 02:37:48PM -0400 schrieb Giulio Genovese: > > > Hi Andreas, > > > > > > To address bug #1069234 > > > <https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1069234> the bcftools > > > package acquired, through commit a46c2e25 > > > < > > https://salsa.debian.org/med-team/bcftools/-/commit/a46c2e2567ffcbac0099f102c6bcac2568f100a8 > > >, > > > two new dependencies: > > > - python3-gffutils > > > - python3-matplotlib > > > This causes the size of the package dependencies to explode from <50MB to > > > >500MB. > > > > > > As bcftools is mostly a C software, I believe the most appropriate > > approach > > > is to have those dependencies as recommended dependencies, so that the > > > package can be installed in a minimalistic fashion with the apt-get > > > --no-install-recommends command while not affecting other use cases, > > > similarly to how it was done for the bwa package in commit e3fef43e > > > < > > https://salsa.debian.org/med-team/bwa/-/commit/e3fef43e17a26dd0c1c7d7ac81333a0e9c6367b3 > > > > > > where perl was demoted to a recommended dependency. > > > > > > I hope this change can be included for the next release. Thank you! > > > > > > Giulio > > > > -- > > https://fam-tille.de > > -- https://fam-tille.de
