The resolution to bug #183970 was to not present default values in the Readline frontend if using Term::ReadLine::Stub. This means that if libterm-readline-gnu-perl is not installed, hitting enter at the prompt will not use the default value (as would happen in most other frontends), but will give the empty string. This means people hit bugs like #407761. In fact, the default value is not even presented to the user, so often they will not know what a sensible value to enter would be. And without libterm-readline-gnu-perl, the frontend doesn't really deserve the name 'Readline'. :) Since it is always possible for Dialog to fall back to Readline, and since the interface is verging on unusable without the extension, I think it is worth considering the use of 'Recommends' instead of 'Suggests'.