Hi Andreas,
Thanks for your work on this. I personally thought of these additional tools wrapped by Biopython as more worthy of "Suggests" rather than "Recommends", based on my understanding of the policy manual (
https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-relationships.html):
* Recommends - "should list packages that would be found together with this one in all but unusual installations"
* Suggests - "tells the packaging system and the user that the listed packages are related to this one and can perhaps enhance its usefulness, but that installing this one without them is perfectly reasonable"
Most biologists would only use a subset of these packages in their own work; some of the programs are borderline obsolete and the Biopython wrappers are only maintained for backward
compatibility. There are a lot of these command-line tools, and they are
prone to cluttering the namespace once installed (some packages may install multiple scripts), even though Debian Med packaging generally ensures there are no actual collisions.