[Python-modules-team] Bug#953479: mopidy: Please move fonts-lato dependency to the recommended section

[Горбешко Богдан]

On 10.03.2020 00:39, Stein Magnus Jodal wrote:
> reassign 953479 sphinx-rtd-theme
> thanks
>
> On Mon, Mar 09, 2020 at 11:26:22PM +0200, Горбешко Богдан wrote:
>> the fonts-lato is a pretty bloated dependency (more than 10 MB of disk
>> space).
>> It was mandatory for the ruby2.5 package when it just released, but then was
>> moved to recommended. Please do the same. I don't think that using a
>> fallback
>> font will affect user experience in any significant way (only maybe if
>> mopidy
>> uses some Lato-specific font features).
> Hi!
>
> Mopidy does not depend on fonts-lato directly, only via Suggests on
> mopidy-doc, which Depends on sphinx-rtd-theme-common, which again
> Depends on fonts-lato.
>
> Thus, there is nothing that can be easily done with this from the
> perspective of src:mopidy.
>
> Reassigning to src:sphinx-rtd-theme.
>
> --
> Stein Magnus Jodal

Hmm, yes; though the reason is not the suggested mopidy-doc package, but 
the python3-pykka dependency, which started to depend on 
sphinx-rtd-theme-common. The latter is used by a lot of packages, so 
then I'm less sure that this change will have that minimal impact.