Bug#1130175: gnome-control-center: heif-* Depends should be Recommends

[Agathe Porte]

Package: gnome-control-center
Version: 1:48.4-1~deb13u1
Severity: wishlist
X-Debbugs-Cc: gagath at debian.org

Dear Maintainer,

Support for HEIF thumbnail generation has been introduced as a Depends
on the gnome-control-center package in this commit:
https://salsa.debian.org/gnome-team/gnome-control-center/-/commit/2680a789e11e23b598fd083d202150098317bbf4

To fix this Debian bug:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=981757

This makes the distribution of GNOME difficult for Debian Blends that
want to avoid distributing the H265 codec library as it can be
problematic.

Since there are no hard build dependencies on HEIF, I would suggest
to move the following two dependencies from Depends to Recommends:

- heif-gdk-pixbuf
- heif-thumbnailer

This way one can skip HEIF support by using the --no-install-recommends
option.

See also this bug for more context on the listed dependencies and the
original need for HEIC thumbnails:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=981538

Thanks,

Agathe.