Bug#526999: clive: support installation without depends on libterm-progressbar-perl?

[Michael Prokop]

Package: clive
Version: 2.1.11-1
Severity: wishlist


Depends of clive:

# apt-cache show clive | grep Depends
Depends: perl, libconfig-tiny-perl (>= 2.12), libwww-curl-perl (>= 4.05), libhtml-parser-perl (>= 2.37), libterm-progressbar-perl (>= 2.09), libberkeleydb-perl (>= 0.34), liburi-perl (>= 1.37), libexpect-perl (>= 1.20), libterm-readkey-perl, perl (>= 5.10) | libdigest-sha-perl

whereas libterm-progressbar-perl depends on:

# apt-cache show libterm-progressbar-perl | grep Depends
Depends: perl (>= 5.6.0-16), libclass-methodmaker-perl, libterm-readkey-perl

... now libclass-methodmaker-perl is a pretty huge package:

# apt-cache show libclass-methodmaker-perl | grep Size
Installed-Size: 22568
Size: 498768

Is there any chance that the progressbar of clive becomes optional
and the dependeny on libterm-progressbar-perl could become a
recommends/suggest?

thx && regards,
-mika-