Bug#1114739: diffoscope-minimal: make it actually minimal?

[Richard Lewis]

package: diffoscope-minimal
version: 297
severity: wishlist

diffoscope-minimal seems rather badly named as it recommends a huge
number of packages, very few of which seem to meet the definition of
recommends for a "minimal" package -- i think most people would just a
slight improvement on debdiff

i know i can remove recommends, but it's a chore as you  but can't
just blindly remove everything given that other packages may also
depend on them (eg gpg, e2fsprogs). and it's not clear what impact
removing anything has -- eg i can guess that  r-base-core and ffmpeg
can go, but is python3-argcomplete actually recommended for all users?

and you have to repeat this on every stable upgrade by which time i've
forgotten that something else depends on genisoimage and that aapt has
nothing at all to do with apt

thanks for considering, and for maintaining diffoscope