Package: sbuild Version: 0.66.0-5 Severity: wishlist Hi! As per apt's defaults, whenever a package that's a part of the sbuild chroot gains a new Recommends:, that recommendation will be installed. This default makes sense for regular apt uses outside of sbuild, but in sbuild's context, it goes against the aim of a minimal chroot. It'll allow missing build-dependencies to sneak through unnoticed, and makes fresh chroots differ from updated ones.
Thus, please make sbuild-update pass --no-install-recommends to apt.