[Bug 1213920] [NEW] Downgrade Lintian to a Suggest

[Sebastian Heinlein]

Litian is used to make assumptions about the quality of third party 
packages that e.g. have been downloaded from the Internet by the user. 
So it is not used as a developer tool in this context.

We could argue if ubuntu-desktop should depend on lintian instead of 
aptdaemon itself. But which flavour would like to skip this feature? 
There is optionally the posibillity to disable the installation of 
recommends if you want to have a low system size.

Cheers,

Sebastian

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Title:
  Downgrade Lintian to a Suggest

Status in “aptdaemon” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  aptdaemon's package as it stands recommends lintian. This means that
  lintian gets installed by default in Ubuntu, and any flavours that use
  Firefox by default, as Ubufox depends on aptdaemon, OR that install
  the ubuntu-drivers-common packages by default, which I image is most
  of them. Lintian pulls a load of perl dependencies with it that are
  not used for anything else. Downgrading the recomment of lintian to a
  suggest would obviate this; anyone who knows what lintian is knows
  enough to install it, and it's not something the average user (or even
  a power user who does not develop Debian packages) needs to have
  installed by default.

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