Bug#900060: apt-get build-dep debian-policy installs too much

[Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>]

Package: debian-policy
Version: 4.1.4.1
Severity: minor

I did this, with recommends enabled, in a bare-ish sid shroot, and it
installed
   python-numpy            (wtf!)
   libavahi-common3        (libavahi:amd64 is sadly to be expected)
   python-gtk2             (for gui applications?)
   hicolor-icon-theme gnome-icon-theme  (_two_ themes?)

I think this is almost certainly the result of Recommends bloat in
some other packages.

(There was also an *enormous* pile of fonts and document processing
tools etc., which is expected, I guess, although I do wonder what
proportion of all that is used.)

Ian.

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