Public bug reported:

Not minor bug.

However as far as I'm aware, usually *-doc packages aren't depended by
really actual packages. They should be optional for disk space savings.
However the zfs package doesn't follow the convention as follows:

ryoqun@miyako:~$ aptitude show zfsutils-linux
Package: zfsutils-linux
New: yes
State: installed
Automatically installed: no
Version: 0.6.5.6-0ubuntu8
Priority: extra
Section: universe/admin
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <ubuntu-devel-disc...@lists.ubuntu.com>
Architecture: amd64
Uncompressed Size: 720 k
Depends: init-system-helpers (>= 1.18~), zfs-doc (= 0.6.5.6-0ubuntu8), 
libblkid1 (>= 2.16), libc6 (>= 2.14), libnvpair1linux, libuuid1 (>= 2.16), 
libuutil1linux, libzfs2linux, libzpool2linux
Recommends: zfs-dkms, zfs-zed
Suggests: samba-common-bin (>= 3.0.23), nfs-kernel-server, zfs-initramfs
Conflicts: zfs, zfs-fuse, zfs-fuse:i386, zfs:i386, zfsutils-linux:i386
Replaces: zfs, zfs:i386
Provides: zfs
Description: Native OpenZFS management utilities for Linux
 This package provides the zpool and zfs commands that are used to manage 
OpenZFS filesystems.
Homepage: https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/releases/tag/zfs-0.6.5.6

** Affects: zfs-linux (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

** Description changed:

  Not minor bug.
  
  However as far as I'm aware, usually *-doc packages aren't depended by
  really actual packages. They should be optional for disk space savings.
- However the zfs packages doesn't follow the convention as follows:
+ However the zfs package doesn't follow the convention as follows:
  
  ryoqun@miyako:~$ aptitude show zfsutils-linux
- Package: zfsutils-linux                  
+ Package: zfsutils-linux
  New: yes
  State: installed
  Automatically installed: no
  Version: 0.6.5.6-0ubuntu8
  Priority: extra
  Section: universe/admin
  Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <ubuntu-devel-disc...@lists.ubuntu.com>
  Architecture: amd64
  Uncompressed Size: 720 k
  Depends: init-system-helpers (>= 1.18~), zfs-doc (= 0.6.5.6-0ubuntu8), 
libblkid1 (>= 2.16), libc6 (>= 2.14), libnvpair1linux, libuuid1 (>= 2.16), 
libuutil1linux, libzfs2linux, libzpool2linux
  Recommends: zfs-dkms, zfs-zed
  Suggests: samba-common-bin (>= 3.0.23), nfs-kernel-server, zfs-initramfs
  Conflicts: zfs, zfs-fuse, zfs-fuse:i386, zfs:i386, zfsutils-linux:i386
  Replaces: zfs, zfs:i386
  Provides: zfs
  Description: Native OpenZFS management utilities for Linux
-  This package provides the zpool and zfs commands that are used to manage 
OpenZFS filesystems.
+  This package provides the zpool and zfs commands that are used to manage 
OpenZFS filesystems.
  Homepage: https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/releases/tag/zfs-0.6.5.6

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