Package: ucf
Version: 3.001
Severity: normal

ucf recommends debconf-utils, for debconf-loadtemplate. It uses
debconf-loadtemplate to load the ucf templates:

        # Load out templates, just in case our template has
        # not been loaded or the Debconf DB lost or corrupted
        # since then.
        if test $(id -u) = 0; then
            if which debconf-loadtemplate >/dev/null 2>&1; then
                debconf-loadtemplate ucf /var/lib/dpkg/info/ucf.templates
            fi

As a recommends, debconf-utils is not currently installed by default, so 
this code won't fire on most systems currently. But I'm looking at making
tasksel install recommends by default (see #388290), and since nfs-common
is standard priority and depends on ucf, if I do that, debconf-utils will be
installed as part of standard. I'd prefer to avoid that, since it's 140k 
of utilities that were split out to a seperate package to _avoid_ having
them unnecessarily installed by default.

My question to you: Does ucf really need to recommend debconf-utils? How
important is it that it have debconf-loadtemplate available? Would a suggests
be more appropriate?

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.20-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages ucf depends on:
ii  cdebconf [debconf-2.0]        0.115      Debian Configuration Management Sy
ii  coreutils                     5.97-5.3   The GNU core utilities
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]         1.5.13     Debian configuration management sy

Versions of packages ucf recommends:
ii  debconf-utils                 1.5.13     debconf utilities

-- debconf information excluded

-- 
see shy jo

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