Hi, Since we had dropped [1] the non-working Invest applet from the package before 1.20 release, there are no Python applets inside anymore. Therefore, Python and GI dependencies can be safely removed. Oh, and the mention of the Invest applet in package description and copyright file can be dropped too. I've dropped all that in debian-packages repo [2].
[1] https://github.com/mate-desktop/mate-applets/pull/303 [2] https://github.com/mate-desktop/debian-packages/commit/02b4a72f6c491235e11739a5e99edfa240a5b6d5