[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#874614: Please demote some packages from dependency to recommendation

[Alf Gaida]

Package: libblockdev2
Version: 2.12-2
Severity: serious
Tags: patch

Dear Maintainer,

please demote the dependencies of mdadm, gdisk etc to recommendations.

mdadm, gdisk and so on can be recommended, depend on them is much to hard.

apt purge gdisk
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  gdisk* gvfs* gvfs-daemons* libblockdev-part-dev* libblockdev-part2* udisks2*
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 6 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
After this operation, 3.984 kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] N

apt purge mdadm                                       :(
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  gvfs* gvfs-daemons* libblockdev-mdraid-dev* libblockdev-mdraid2* mdadm* udisks2*


Thanks Alf

-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
  APT prefers buildd-unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'buildd-unstable'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (500, 'oldstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.13.0-towo.1-siduction-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.utf8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE= (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages libblockdev2 depends on:
ii  libblockdev-utils2  2.12-2
ii  libc6               2.24-17
ii  libglib2.0-0        2.53.6-1

libblockdev2 recommends no packages.

libblockdev2 suggests no packages.

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