How shall I report a bug in the .deb packaging itself?

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Mon, 28 Dec 2015 19:03:16 +0100, Alberto Salvia Novella wrote:
>Ralf Mardorf:
> > Seemingly you can't provide new arguments, so you should expect to
> > get the same replies and perhaps some subscribers consider it as
> > trolling or spamming, so that they don't read mails of this thread
> > anymore.  
>
>If I disagreed with you, how much would you care?

1. You described an issue.

2. IIRC everybody agrees that this issue does exist, but that for a
majority of users it's not important, it's not really an issue and that
there is no good way to solve this, without risking to cause serious
annoyances.

3. IIRC perhaps somebody will add an undo function to a GUI. You could
consider to use the history to manually purge unwanted dependencies, so
you even don't need to write a script.

[root at moonstudio ~]# ls -hAl /var/log/apt/
total 1.3M
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 161K Dec 20 12:46 history.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  13K Aug  5 02:21 history.log.1.gz
-rw-r----- 1 root adm  1.1M Dec 20 12:46 term.log
-rw-r----- 1 root adm   40K Aug  5 02:21 term.log.1.gz

In the future you could install packages without recommended
dependencies you don't want to install, it was several times explained
how to do this.