[xml/sgml-pkgs] Bug#869744: Bug#869744: libxml2: please drop Recommends: xml-core

[Mattia Rizzolo]

Control: tag -1 pending

On Wed, Jul 26, 2017 at 02:16:04AM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote:
> This recommends unnecessarily pulls in xml-core on the vast majority of
> Debian installs.  It doesn't seem to be doing anything good -- programs
> that actually need xml-core need to Depend on it anyway, and for the
> rest, it's just a waste.
> 
> While xml-core is a small package -- together with its dependency sgml-base
> they take just 191KB, it's a low-hanging fruit that would allow trimming that
> much from most installs with an one-line change.

Agreed.
https://anonscm.debian.org/git/debian-xml-sgml/libxml2.git/commit/?id=003a8f818f5159ae1287593d2646e0bef3e616ab

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