Dear MariaDB and MySQL Packaging Team,

$ apt-cache show mariadb-server | grep ^Recommends:
Recommends: libhtml-template-perl, ...

This was introduced in Feb 2008 by:
  #462265 - dependency for libtemplate-html-perl is missing:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=462265
which says:
  "Add recommendation on libhtml-template-perl to -server package,
   used by ndb_size"

However, as far as I can tell, {mysql,mariadb}-server has not used
the HTML::Template Perl module for 19+ years.

Changes in MySQL 5.1.18 (2007-05-08):
https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19078-01/mysql/mysql-refman-5.1/news.html#news-5-1-18
says:
  "The dependency on HTML::Template was removed"

On a minimal system, installing libhtml-template-perl pulls in an
additional 16 packages.  See below.

Thank you!
Daniel Lewart
Urbana, Illinois
---
$ dpkg-query -f='${Installed-Size}\t${Package}\n' -W $(cat new17) | sort -nr
477     libcgi-pm-perl
309     liburi-perl
235     libtimedate-perl
227     libhtml-parser-perl
200     libhttp-message-perl
188     libhtml-template-perl
89      libfcgi0t64
74      liblwp-mediatypes-perl
70      libfcgi-perl
63      libio-compress-brotli-perl
63      libclone-perl
42      libfcgi-bin
41      libio-html-perl
40      libhtml-tagset-perl
35      libhttp-date-perl
33      libencode-locale-perl
29      libcgi-fast-perl
###