[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#1026096: parallel: Please revert the Suggests: ash stanza

[наб]

Package: parallel
Version: 20221122+ds-1
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch

Dear Maintainer,

ash is an empty compat package, and has been for a very long time ‒
it contains exclusively /bin/ash -> dash, and dash is essential ‒
the package description notes it as slated for deletion as soon
as all users are eradicated:
  Description: compatibility package for dash
   This package allows upgrading ash to its replacement,
   dash. It includes the /bin/ash symlink.
   It can be removed as soon as /bin/ash is no longer used.

parallel is the only thing that pops up in apt-cache rdepends ash,
and this appears to have been added recently with no comment
(6b67dfb1b7b0d32e7f537d1d39b78c3ecc55f0ba).

Patch that removes the Suggests:, based on current Salsa, below.
Cf. #920644.

Best,
наб

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 11.5
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'stable-debug'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 5.10.0-19-amd64 (SMP w/24 CPU threads)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_FIRMWARE_WORKAROUND, TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages parallel depends on:
ii  perl     5.32.1-4+deb11u2
ii  procps   2:3.3.17-5
ii  sysstat  12.5.2-2

parallel recommends no packages.

parallel suggests no packages.

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