Bug#1008109: awscli: dependency on groff is unnecessary: the smaller groff-base is enough

[Menno Tammens <debian_bugs@eml.cc>]

Package: awscli
Version: 1.19.1-1
Severity: normal
X-Debbugs-Cc: debian_bugs@eml.cc

Dear Maintainer,

awscli depends on groff for the built-in help pages.
The only occurrence of groff is in the file help.py [1], where the following command is used:

groff -m man -T ascii

For this command the smaller package groff-base is sufficient, which saves the installation of several X11 libraries.

Regards,
Menno

[1] https://salsa.debian.org/cloud-team/awscli/-/blob/master/awscli/help.py#L111


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 11.2
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: arm64 (aarch64)

Kernel: Linux 5.10.0-12-arm64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: unable to detect

Versions of packages awscli depends on:
ii  groff               1.22.4-6
ii  python3             3.9.2-3
ii  python3-botocore    1.20.0+repack-1
ii  python3-colorama    0.4.4-1
ii  python3-docutils    0.16+dfsg-4
ii  python3-pyasn1      0.4.8-1
ii  python3-rsa         4.0-4
ii  python3-s3transfer  0.3.4-1
ii  python3-yaml        5.3.1-5

awscli recommends no packages.

awscli suggests no packages.

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