Bug#1010810: gnome-shell-extension-desktop-icons-ng: file-roller and xdg-desktop-portal shouldn't be a dependency

[Markus Hitter]

Package: gnome-shell-extension-desktop-icons-ng
Version: 44-1
Severity: normal
X-Debbugs-Cc: mah at merchantsedition.com

Dear Maintainer,

* What led up to the situation?

Installing the package.

* What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
  ineffective)?

$ sudo apt-get install --no-install-recommends gnome-shell-extension-desktop-icons-ng

* What was the outcome of this action?

Packages file-roller and xdg-desktop-portal were installed as
a depenency.

* What outcome did you expect instead?

These two packages not installed.

* Discussion

AFAICT, neither of these two packages is essential to get this
extension, Desktop Icons NG, working on Gnome. Given this, they
should be a Recommendation instead of a Dependency.

Hint: this observation was made on a test setup on a virtual
machine, not the machine used for reporting this bug. Both are
Debian bookworm, though.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: bookworm/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 5.17.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/12 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=de_CH.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_CH.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages gnome-shell-extension-desktop-icons-ng depends on:
ii  dconf-gsettings-backend [gsettings-backend]  0.40.0-3
ii  file-roller                                  3.42.0-1
ii  gjs                                          1.72.0-2
ii  gnome-shell                                  42.0-4
ii  nautilus                                     42.1.1-1
ii  xdg-desktop-portal                           1.14.3-1

gnome-shell-extension-desktop-icons-ng recommends no packages.

gnome-shell-extension-desktop-icons-ng suggests no packages.