Bug#975261: diffoscope: install footprint is 2.6GB, please move some recommends to suggests

[Mattia Rizzolo]

On Fri, Nov 20, 2020 at 09:31:55AM +0000, Holger Levsen wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 19, 2020 at 06:35:11PM +0000, Ximin Luo wrote:
> > I have managed to figure out that by moving the following Recommends to
> > Suggests one can cut the footprint from 2.6GB to about 64MB which is much more
> > reasonable. Therefore please do that. These are ordered roughly by size:
> 
> maybe this can be solved by having two (or three) diffoscope packages:

I agree, I don't want to need to use apt-get --install-suggests when
installing diffoscope; even more because that's likely to fail due to
random suggests conflicting or non existing or whatnot.  And it would
lead to even bigger installation size.

> - diffoscope-full with the packages as recommends

I reckon this "type" should stay named "diffoscope", what it currently
is.  So current users still get what they currently get.

> - diffoscope-basic with the packages as suggests only

ack.

> - diffoscope-core with just diffoscope, which is the package the above two depend on

ack.


If others (especially Crhis, since it's him doing most of diffoscope
work nowadays) agree, I can take care of doing the needing packaging
changes.

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