Error in repository dependencies for bluez-utils

[ichneumon]

When I attempted to apt-get install bluez-utils, I was offered a total of 81 newly installed packages, for 28.8MB download, and 76.6MB installed. Most of them appear to be cups-related, but certainly nothing I'd recognize as a necessary dependency.

The following NEW packages will be installed:
  acl avahi-daemon bc bind9-host bluetooth bluez bluez-alsa bluez-cups bluez-gstreamer bluez-utils colord cups
  cups-filters cups-ppdc dc foomatic-db-compressed-ppds foomatic-db-engine foomatic-filters geoip-database
  ghostscript-cups hpijs hplip hplip-data libart-2.0-2 libavahi-core7 libbind9-80 libcap-ng0 libcupscgi1 libcupsdriver1
  libcupsfilters1 libcupsmime1 libcupsppdc1 libdns88 libescpr1 libgeoip1 libgusb2 libgutenprint2 libhpmud0 libieee1284-3
  libisc84 libisccc80 libisccfg82 liblwres80 libnss-mdns libperl5.14 libsane libsane-common libsane-extras
  libsane-extras-common libsane-hpaio libsensors4 libslp1 libsnmp-base libsnmp15 libv4l-0 libv4lconvert0 mscompress
  printer-driver-all printer-driver-c2050 printer-driver-c2esp printer-driver-cjet printer-driver-escpr
  printer-driver-foo2zjs printer-driver-gutenprint printer-driver-hpcups printer-driver-hpijs printer-driver-m2300w
  printer-driver-min12xxw printer-driver-pnm2ppa printer-driver-postscript-hp printer-driver-ptouch printer-driver-pxljr
  printer-driver-sag-gdi printer-driver-splix python-imaging python-pexpect python-renderpm python-reportlab
  python-reportlab-accel sane-utils ssl-cert
0 upgraded, 81 newly installed, 0 to remove and 8 not upgraded.
Need to get 28.8 MB of archives.
After this operation, 76.6 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? n

[Diederik (didi-debian)]

APT installs recommends by default and bluez-cups is a recommends of bluetooth and that is the dependency of bluez-utils, which is only a transitional package.

If you don't want to install recommended packages you can do so like this:
apt-get install --no-install-recommends bluez-utils

As this is not a bug, but expected behavior (even though apparently not desirable), I'm marking this bug as invalid.

[ichneumon (ichneumonad)]

Thanks - it's an old one for me, but if there's anything I can do to help test stuff, let me know!