[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#1069234: bcftools: gff2gff.py and guess-ploidy.py fails to run

[Giulio Genovese]

Dear Andreas,

I understand with commit a46c2e25
<https://salsa.debian.org/med-team/bcftools/-/commit/a46c2e2567ffcbac0099f102c6bcac2568f100a8>
the bcftools debian package has acquired the new python3-gffutils and
python3-matplotlib dependencies. I used this debian package to build some
minimalistic dockers but this has now ballooned the size of my dockers from
~100MB to >600MB.

Would it be possible to have these required dependencies changed to
suggested dependencies? BCFtools is mostly software written in C with
minimal dependencies and to see it changed to a package with >10x as many
required dependencies kind of removes this minimalism philosophy.

Something similar was done with the bwa debian package where the perl
required dependency was moved to a suggested dependency. This seems to have
made all parties happy. It would be great if the same philosophy could be
applied to the bcftools debian package.

Giulio
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