Bug#878644: x11-xserver-utils: Installation requires unneeded dependencies

[Tomas Matejicek <tomas@slax.org>]

Package: x11-xserver-utils
Version: 7.7+7+b1
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

I installed minimal Debian system from netinst iso.
Then, I installed Xorg this way:
apt-get install --no-install-recommends xserver-xorg xinit xterm

Now, I would like to install x11-xserver-utils. This package is 160 KB big.
But when I try
apt-get install --no-install-recommends x11-xserver-utils
it wants to install 27 MB of data. This is WRONG.

It reports that the package needs to download and install (among others)
these additional packages: cpp cpp-6 libisl15

I do not see why to install cpp. This is WRONG.

I expect you to drop cpp dependencies because it should not be there.
Maybe move it to *recommends*, but no reason to require it.

Thank you for fixing this.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.2
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-4-686-pae (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages x11-xserver-utils depends on:
ii  cpp          4:6.3.0-4
ii  libc6        2.24-11+deb9u1
ii  libice6      2:1.0.9-2
ii  libx11-6     2:1.6.4-3
ii  libxaw7      2:1.0.13-1+b2
ii  libxcursor1  1:1.1.14-1+b4
ii  libxext6     2:1.3.3-1+b2
ii  libxi6       2:1.7.9-1
ii  libxmu6      2:1.1.2-2
ii  libxmuu1     2:1.1.2-2
ii  libxrandr2   2:1.5.1-1
ii  libxrender1  1:0.9.10-1
ii  libxt6       1:1.1.5-1
ii  libxxf86vm1  1:1.1.4-1+b2

x11-xserver-utils recommends no packages.

Versions of packages x11-xserver-utils suggests:
pn  cairo-5c        <none>
pn  nickle          <none>
pn  xorg-docs-core  <none>

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