Bug#1110700: evolution: removing evolution removes gnome

[JoE]

Package: evolution
Version: 3.46.4-2
Severity: important
X-Debbugs-Cc: joe2014knowbody at gmail.com

Dear Maintainer,

   When removing evolution from Debian 12 with Gnome Desktop it removes
the Gnome Desktop:

$sudo apt remove evolution

Log:

Start-Date: 2025-08-08 17:17:21
Commandline: apt remove evolution
Requested-By: joe (1000)
Remove: gnome:amd64 (1:43+1), evolution-plugins:amd64 (3.46.4-2), evolution-plugin-pstimport:amd64 (3.46.4-2), evolution-plugin-bogofilter:amd64 (3.46.4-2), evolution:amd64 (3.46.4-2)
End-Date: 2025-08-08 17:19:02

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 12.11
  APT prefers oldstable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'oldstable-updates'), (500, 'oldstable-security'), (500, 'oldstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 6.1.0-37-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_AU:en
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages evolution depends on:
ii  dbus [default-dbus-system-bus]  1.14.10-1~deb12u1
pn  evolution-common                <none>
ii  evolution-data-server           3.46.4-2
ii  libc6                           2.36-9+deb12u10
ii  libcamel-1.2-64                 3.46.4-2
ii  libecal-2.0-2                   3.46.4-2
ii  libedataserver-1.2-27           3.46.4-2
pn  libevolution                    <none>
ii  libglib2.0-0                    2.74.6-2+deb12u6
ii  libgtk-3-0                      3.24.38-2~deb12u3
ii  libical3                        3.0.16-1+b1
ii  libnotify4                      0.8.1-1
ii  libwebkit2gtk-4.1-0             2.48.3-1~deb12u1
ii  libxml2                         2.9.14+dfsg-1.3~deb12u2
ii  psmisc                          23.6-1

Versions of packages evolution recommends:
pn  evolution-plugin-bogofilter | evolution-plugin-spamassassin  <none>
pn  evolution-plugin-pstimport                                   <none>
pn  evolution-plugins                                            <none>
ii  yelp                                                         42.2-1+deb12u1

Versions of packages evolution suggests:
pn  evolution-ews                   <none>
pn  evolution-plugins-experimental  <none>
ii  gnupg                           2.2.40-1.1
ii  network-manager                 1.42.4-1+deb12u1