Package: lsof Version: 4.89+dfsg-0.1 Severity: wishlist Dear Maintainer,
Installing lsof also pulls in Perl via the Suggests line. This leads to a 37MB download to install a lsof. This is especially true in enviroments like toolbox (https://github.com/coreos/toolbox) (if using a Debian image) that usually does not have Perl installed. Please consider dropping the Suggests: Perl in this package as it is not needed. The Perl scripts that come with this package have this warning in the 00README: Use them to learn about processing field output, don't expect them to be ready for production, and expect to be required to modify them to make them work. If a user wants to play with those installing Perl is eays. -- System Information: Debian Release: 9.2 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US:en_GB:en (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages lsof depends on: ii libc6 2.24-11+deb9u1 ii libselinux1 2.6-3+b3 lsof recommends no packages. Versions of packages lsof suggests: ii perl 5.24.1-3+deb9u2 -- no debconf information
