Bug#55461: too many depends (that mostly should be suggests)

["Juergen A. Erhard" <jae@jae.ddns.org>]

Package: task-python-dev
Version: N/A;
Severity: important

[CC'd to debian-python to get some discussion going... hopefully flame-free
:-)]

There are too many Depends... most of those should be Suggests:,
and some of them should be dropped completely.

Stuff like python-gtk is okay, I think.

Stuff I would move to suggestions:

   gadfly: if I use PostgreSQL, I have no use for this...

   gimp-python: okay, so everyone has the GIMP, and *needs* scripting
                in python

Stuff I would remove:

   pyrite: every python developer has a Palm, right ;-)

           only Palm users would be interested in this, which is a pretty
           small group (to which I, sadly, don't belong ;-)

   htmlgen: that's in python-web already...
   
I think all the task-python* packages lack focus...

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