Is it reasonable to move "zenity" from "Depends:" to "Recommends:" for metacity package?

[Wei Tsui]

Actually metacity don't really depend on "zenity" package.

I want to install metacity and purge zenity because zenity depends on too much heavy packages like aspell, dictionaries-common, libwebkit-gtk-3, libgstreams-0.. which are very and very big.

So is it possible to move "zenity" in "DEBIAN/control" file from "Depends" to "Recommends" ?

For most developers, long-time regardless of Metacity makes metacity dependencies too unreasonable...

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: metacity 1:3.18.1-1ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.3.0-5.16-generic 4.3.3
Uname: Linux 4.3.0-5-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.19.3-0ubuntu3
Architecture: amd64/armhf
CurrentDesktop: GNOME-Flashback:Unity
Date: Mon Jan 18 13:16:18 2016
SourcePackage: metacity
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Alberts Muktupāvels (muktupavels)]

Metacity depends on zenity to show "Application is not responding." dialog. It is not optional...

I think it should be possible to port from zenity to GTK+ dialog. I will happily review such patch. :)

[Wei Tsui (ghostplant)]

It seems that missing zenity command won't make metacity fault.

Temporarily, a better solution is to install a virtual package (with "Provides: zenity") by users themselves. So I thinks metacity needn't fix this issue actually!