[Bug 1884583] Re: vim is dependent on libcanberra0 in Ubuntu 20.04, had no such dependency in Ubuntu 18.04

[Scott Mcdermott]

Upstream says they will not remove the sound library and its indirect
freedesktop theme (35 sound files) dependencies because it's not a big
deal, and it's not X so technically it's still 'nox'.  I don't think
this is sane for a package installed on many servers to start bringing
in desktop requirements, but the maintainer is firm.

I'm hoping Ubuntu will consider overriding Debian and adding --disable-
canberra to their vim-nox build.

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Title:
  vim is dependent on libcanberra0 in Ubuntu 20.04, had no such
  dependency in Ubuntu 18.04

Status in vim package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  which pulls in libasound and some alsa packages which I am not sure why it is useful and desired on most text-only/headless systems.
  In Debian I also see this dependency arisen with Bullseye/testing and Sid/unstable (but not with Buster/stable) but I don't see any mention of this introduction and its usefulness in the package's changelog. Could the reason of this dependency creation please be investigated, its usefulness evaluated, and if possible, this dependency to be made optional for vim builds ? Surprisingly, installing vim-nox also pulls in libcanberra0. vim-tiny does not pull in libcanberra0, but it also does not have syntax highlighting. What should I do to have syntax highlighting without libcanberra0 overhead ?

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