Dear Andreas, I understand with commit a46c2e25 <https://salsa.debian.org/med-team/bcftools/-/commit/a46c2e2567ffcbac0099f102c6bcac2568f100a8> the bcftools debian package has acquired the new python3-gffutils and python3-matplotlib dependencies. I used this debian package to build some minimalistic dockers but this has now ballooned the size of my dockers from ~100MB to >600MB.
Would it be possible to have these required dependencies changed to suggested dependencies? BCFtools is mostly software written in C with minimal dependencies and to see it changed to a package with >10x as many required dependencies kind of removes this minimalism philosophy. Something similar was done with the bwa debian package where the perl required dependency was moved to a suggested dependency. This seems to have made all parties happy. It would be great if the same philosophy could be applied to the bcftools debian package. Giulio
