Bug#495699: no savings if all packages are downloaded anyway

[jidanni at jidanni.org]

Package: libhtml-wikiconverter-mediawiki-perl
Severity: wishlist

I don't understand why this doesn't just download one or two or three packages?
Why should the dependencies bring in all those unrelated parts? What
would then be the point of making them separate packages in the first place?

# apt-get install libhtml-wikiconverter-mediawiki-perl
The following extra packages will be installed:
  libclass-data-accessor-perl libcss-perl libfile-slurp-perl libhtml-wikiconverter-dokuwiki-perl
  libhtml-wikiconverter-kwiki-perl libhtml-wikiconverter-moinmoin-perl libhtml-wikiconverter-oddmuse-perl
  libhtml-wikiconverter-perl libhtml-wikiconverter-pmwiki-perl libhtml-wikiconverter-snipsnap-perl
  libhtml-wikiconverter-tikiwiki-perl libhtml-wikiconverter-usemod-perl libhtml-wikiconverter-wakkawiki-perl
  libhtml-wikiconverter-wikkawiki-perl libparams-validate-perl
Suggested packages:
  python-moinmoin
Recommended packages:
  libhtml-wikiconverter-dialect libhtml-wikiconverter-phpwiki-perl
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  libclass-data-accessor-perl libcss-perl libfile-slurp-perl libhtml-wikiconverter-dokuwiki-perl
  libhtml-wikiconverter-kwiki-perl libhtml-wikiconverter-mediawiki-perl libhtml-wikiconverter-moinmoin-perl
  libhtml-wikiconverter-oddmuse-perl libhtml-wikiconverter-perl libhtml-wikiconverter-pmwiki-perl
  libhtml-wikiconverter-snipsnap-perl libhtml-wikiconverter-tikiwiki-perl libhtml-wikiconverter-usemod-perl
  libhtml-wikiconverter-wakkawiki-perl libhtml-wikiconverter-wikkawiki-perl libparams-validate-perl
0 upgraded, 16 newly installed, 0 to remove and 20 not upgraded.

Why recommend these?
# set   libhtml-wikiconverter-dialect libhtml-wikiconverter-phpwiki-perl
# apt-cache show $@|wc
      0       0       0
# apt-cache showpkg $@
shows they are already in Provides.