Hi, Lee Thanks for bringing attention to this. I am one of the upstream maintainers, and (funny enough) was just "reviving" the Debian package of kworkflow in the past few days.
In the new package release, these unnecessary dependencies will be removed. I'll come back here once the new release that closes this bug occurs. I am fresh in Debian packaging, so sorry if I am saying nonsense :) Thanks again, David On Thu, 31 Jul 2025 15:36:07 +0200 Lee Garrett <[email protected]> wrote: > Source: kworkflow > Version: 20191112-1.2 > Severity: normal > X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected] > > Hi, > > kworkflow hard depends on ansible (and some other packages), even though there > is not a single mention of ansible in the packages itself. It seems like the > maintainer just liked ansible :). Please remove it, as it makes ansible a key > package during the freeze, even though it shouldn't be the case. > > Regards, > Lee > > > -- System Information: > Debian Release: 13.0 > APT prefers testing-security > APT policy: (990, 'testing-security'), (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable') > Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) > > Kernel: Linux 6.12.35+deb13-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads; PREEMPT) > Kernel taint flags: TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE > Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not > set > Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash > Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) > LSM: AppArmor: enabled > >
