Bug#1140216: texmacs-doc should NOT recommend giac-doc, just suggest it

[r.ductor]

Package: texmacs-doc
Version: 1:2.1.4+ds-3
Severity: minor
X-Debbugs-Cc: r.ductor at gmail.com

Dear Maintainer,

As the bulk of debian users I automatically install "Recommended packages.

Now, it happens that texmacs Depends on texmacs-doc which Recommends giac-doc which Recommends xcas which Recommends a lot of stuff.

Result: I wanted to install texmacs, which is an editor, and I realized that xcas, some cas libraries, R, fortran, lapack and other CAS/numerical stuff -- cool but  unrelated with editing -- where also installed.

I understand and appreciate that texmacs is CAS friendly, but the user should be allowed to chose which CAS to install and which not. (Nothing against xcas and friends!)

Please, consider downgrading the relation to "texmacs-doc Suggests giac-doc", which would fix in a simple way this weird behavior.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 13.5
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (900, 'stable-updates'), (900, 'stable-security'), (900, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 6.12.48+deb13-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US:en
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

texmacs-doc depends on no packages.

Versions of packages texmacs-doc recommends:
ii  giac-doc  1.9.0.93+dfsg2-3

Versions of packages texmacs-doc suggests:
ii  texmacs-bin  1:2.1.4+ds-3

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