Source: libxml2 Version: 2.9.4+dfsg1-3 Severity: wishlist Hi! This recommends unnecessarily pulls in xml-core on the vast majority of Debian installs. It doesn't seem to be doing anything good -- programs that actually need xml-core need to Depend on it anyway, and for the rest, it's just a waste.
While xml-core is a small package -- together with its dependency sgml-base they take just 191KB, it's a low-hanging fruit that would allow trimming that much from most installs with an one-line change. Meow! -- System Information: Debian Release: buster/sid APT prefers unstable-debug APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (150, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.13.0-rc2-debug-00025-g7c422cf6b36d (SMP w/6 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)
