[Pkg-nginx-maintainers] Bug#904085: nginx-extras: Use recommends for dynamic modules

[Adrien CLERC]

Package: nginx-extras
Version: 1.13.12-1
Severity: wishlist

Hi,

I'm currently using nginx-extras to have a number of modules built in.
However, since the rise of dynamic modules, it seems that some modules
are installed as a dependency, which is not completely true. As an
example, libnginx-mod-http-image-filter is listed, by not really required.

However this same module requires some dependencies that I would like to
suppress, like libtiff5, but it's blocked by the dependency model.

Would you like to consider using "Recommends:" for dynamic modules? They
will be installed by the default settings anyway, and could be removed
afterwards without hard breaking the installation.

Have a nice day,

Adrien

-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-4-grsec-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8),
LANGUAGE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages nginx-extras depends on:
ii  libc6                                  2.27-3
ii  libnginx-mod-http-auth-pam             1.13.12-1
ii  libnginx-mod-http-cache-purge          1.13.12-1
ii  libnginx-mod-http-dav-ext              1.13.12-1
ii  libnginx-mod-http-echo                 1.13.12-1
ii  libnginx-mod-http-fancyindex           1.13.12-1
ii  libnginx-mod-http-geoip                1.13.12-1
ii  libnginx-mod-http-headers-more-filter  1.13.12-1
ii  libnginx-mod-http-image-filter         1.13.12-1
ii  libnginx-mod-http-lua                  1.13.12-1
ii  libnginx-mod-http-perl                 1.13.12-1
ii  libnginx-mod-http-subs-filter          1.13.12-1
ii  libnginx-mod-http-uploadprogress       1.13.12-1
ii  libnginx-mod-http-upstream-fair        1.13.12-1
ii  libnginx-mod-http-xslt-filter          1.13.12-1
ii  libnginx-mod-mail                      1.13.12-1
ii  libnginx-mod-nchan                     1.13.12-1
ii  libnginx-mod-stream                    1.13.12-1
ii  libpcre3                               2:8.39-9
ii  libssl1.1                              1.1.0h-4
ii  nginx-common                           1.13.12-1
ii  zlib1g                                 1:1.2.11.dfsg-1

nginx-extras recommends no packages.

Versions of packages nginx-extras suggests:
pn  nginx-doc  <none>

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