Package: appstream Version: 0.10.4-1 Severity: normal A default desktop install pulls in appstream, by way of gnome -> gnome-core -> gnome-software -> appstream. Installing appstream, whether used or not, will cause apt to download the appstream metadata and icons for every apt source. This would make sense if downloaded when gnome-software or a similar program that needed it ran; however, this data gets downloaded even when updating with console-only package managers like apt or aptitude.
In a default install, please avoid affecting the time and bandwidth consumed by updates done via entirely text-based apt frontends. Alternatively, please arrange to have appstream or gnome-software become a Recommends (rather than a Depends) of a default desktop install. Thank you, Josh Triplett -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-rc8-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages appstream depends on: ii libappstream4 0.10.4-1 ii libc6 2.24-8 ii libglib2.0-0 2.50.2-2 ii libstemmer0d 0+svn585-1 ii libxml2 2.9.4+dfsg1-2.1 ii libyaml-0-2 0.1.7-2 appstream recommends no packages. appstream suggests no packages. -- no debconf information
