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

[Agathe Porte]

Control: tag -1 patch

Hello,

(I intended to open this bug with this email address; don’t be
surprised it just changed)

>On Mon, Mar 9, 2026 at 1:29 PM Agathe Porte <gagath at debian.org> wrote:
>> 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
>
>Those dependencies are no longer needed in Unstable and Testing since
>gdk-pixbuf handles that format via glycin (but only for Debian release
>architectures; ports still need the third-party gdk-pixbuf and
>thumbnailer packages). The Debian GNOME team hasn't decided yet how it
>wants to handle these packages.

Good to know. I might have to investigate wether glycin pulls h265 for
my current usecase, but this is a me problem. :)

> It sounds like you might want this fixed for Debian 13 too? In that
> case, we still need to do something for Unstable first.

Correct, this is why I have proposed the following PR for unstable
first:
https://salsa.debian.org/gnome-team/gnome-control-center/-/merge_requests/77

The infrastructure for getting this change into trixie proposed-updates
seems to be in place on Salsa, so this might be a good candidate if the
fix seems fair.

Thanks.

Agathe.