debian: downgrade trousers package dependency to recommended
Currently `trousers` is listed as (hard) Dependency, but it does not
seems to be required for quite a few usecases, e.g., ours where we
mainly using swtpm for providing a tpm to VMs.
With trousers in Debian one gets an additional pain point: it comes
with rather dated and in some cirumstances failing by mistake init
script [0] that can throw errors when setting up during installation
and thus fail the whole installation of swtpm as Debian policy for
`Depends` hits:
> A package will not be configured unless all of the packages listed
> in its Depends field have been correctly configured
-- [1]
Declaring dependencies for things are not a hard requirement means
that a user will be required to install more dependencies than
actually needed.
Just documenting that as fact why I investigated in the
hard-requirement on trousers in the first place, not an actual
justification - it's a packaging bug after all.
So downgrade the dependency to "Suggests", as it seems a reasonable
level when checking its documented meaning:
> This is used to declare that one package may be more useful with
> one or more others. Using this field tells the packaging system and
> the user that the listed packages are related to this one and can
> perhaps enhance its usefulness, but that installing this one without
> them is perfectly reasonable.
-- [1]
[0]: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=895201
[1]: https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-relationships.html
Signed-off-by: Thomas Lamprecht <t.lamprecht@proxmox.com>
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