Package: python3-electrum
Version: 4.0.2-1
Severity: normal
User: tails-...@boum.org
Usertags: misc-reported

Hi,

I see that electrum has "Recommends: python3-qdarkstyle"; so far,
so good.

On top of that, since 4.0.2-1, python3-electrum has "Depends:
python3-qdarkstyle". Is this absolute dependency needed?
(See Policy 7.2ยน for details.)

I'm asking because:

 - As far as I can tell, electrum and python3-electrum 4.0.2-0.1
   worked just fine without this dependency. So I'm wondering why
   4.0.2-1 differs in this respect.

 - python3-qdarkstyle depends on python3-qtpy, which itself pulls in
   a big pile of python3-pyqt5.*. This causes trouble in the context
   of Tails as this would make our live images and updates
   significantly larger.

[1] 
https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-relationships.html#binary-dependencies-depends-recommends-suggests-enhances-pre-depends

Thank you for maintaining Electrum in Debian,
cheers!

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