Nope. It's exactly as it should be for packages with a collection of small tools like e.g. debian-goodies or devscripts:
* Dependencies of all or at least most tools are in Depends. * Hard dependencies which just appear in one or very few tools are in Recommends. (Other tools in the package are still usable then and if you only need them, there must to be a way to not install dependencies of the other, unused tools.) * Optional dependencies of any tool are just in Suggests. Besides: * Recommends are installed by default. As you've shown, you explicitly need to disable them to get into that situation. And as the documentation (at least Debian's) says: You're then on your own if something doesn't work because of that. * The package description explains very verbose which tool needs which of the Recommends and Suggests. ** Changed in: debian-goodies (Ubuntu) Status: New => Invalid -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1888280 Title: dctrl-tools should be dependency of debian-goodies To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/debian-goodies/+bug/1888280/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs