where to make packaging suggestions? the monstrosity that is "xmlto"

[Luis Paulo]

On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 1:07 PM, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday at crashcourse.ca> wrote:
>
>  in the process of setting up my 10.04 box for
> typesetting/publishing, and went to install the "xmlto" package --
> sadly, it insists on dragging in dozens and dozens of "tex"-related
> packages and requiring 757MB of extra disk space.  (...)
>

Are those tex-related recommend packages? Maybe you may avoid them using

 --no-install-recommends
           Do not consider recommended packages as a dependency for
installing. Configuration Item:
           APT::Install-Recommends.
(see man apt-get)

I can, but I'm still using 9.10
$ sudo apt-get install --no-install-recommends xmlto

Hope it helps
Luis