Hi Andreas,
To address bug
#1069234 the bcftools package acquired, through commit
a46c2e25, two new dependencies:
- python3-gffutils
- python3-matplotlib
This causes the size of the package dependencies to explode from <50MB to >500MB.
As bcftools is mostly a C software, I believe the most appropriate approach is to have those dependencies as recommended dependencies, so that the package can be installed in a minimalistic fashion with the apt-get --no-install-recommends command while not affecting other use cases, similarly to how it was done for the bwa package in commit
e3fef43e where perl was demoted to a recommended dependency.
I hope this change can be included for the next release. Thank you!
Giulio