Package: samtools Version: 1.10-4 Severity: minor Dear Maintainer,
Samtools includes recommended installation of python and cwltool. python is completely unnecessary now. cwltool should be a "suggests" at most for samtools, though I would make samtools a "recommends" for cwltool, as many workflows that use cwltool do use samtools. I discovered this because I was creating Docker images for processing sequencing data and I noticed that python and cwltool were being installed unless I included --no-install-recommends on the apt-get command line. The disadvantage to leaving this is that some Debian images will be larger even when they don't need cwltool or python. I have been emailing with Andreas Tille outside of this bug report and I think he has addressed this issue in the following two git commits: https://salsa.debian.org/med-team/samtools/-/commit/e8c62ffa10f390937a225fb4188fa9c31510379a https://salsa.debian.org/med-team/samtools/-/commit/81ac71e9ddacb88279c35a913c81ba8f5118720a Thanks, Alan -- System Information: Debian Release: 10.3 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 4.19.76-linuxkit (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Kernel taint flags: TAINT_RANDSTRUCT Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=C (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: unable to detect Versions of packages samtools depends on: ii libc6 2.28-10 ii libhts2 1.9-11 ii libncurses6 6.1+20181013-2+deb10u2 ii libtinfo6 6.1+20181013-2+deb10u2 ii zlib1g 1:1.2.11.dfsg-1 Versions of packages samtools recommends: pn cwltool <none> pn python <none> samtools suggests no packages. -- no debconf information
