Comment 3 for bug 2042100

devscripts is what's pulling in that libgitlab-api-v4-perl perl dependency (Recommends). Which can also be seen from the seeds: https://ubuntu-archive-team.ubuntu.com/germinate-output/ubuntu.noble/all+extra

Indeed, we could consider downgrading that devscripts Recommends to a Suggests (if that's sensible), to cut the tree even further and get a few packages demoted on the way.

$ reverse-depends src:libgitlab-api-v4-perl -c main
Reverse-Recommends
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* devscripts (for libgitlab-api-v4-perl)