Item1492: Strange dependency list in Debian package for Extensions.HolidayListPlugin

This is what happens when I install HolidayListPlugin from Sven's Debian repository:

apt-get install foswiki-holidaylistplugin
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  apt apt-utils binutils dpkg fontconfig gcc-4.3-base graphviz libapr1
  libbit-vector-perl libc6 libc6-dev libc6-dev-i386 libc6-i386 libcairo2
  libcarp-clan-perl libcompress-raw-zlib-perl libcompress-zlib-perl
  libdate-calc-perl libdatrie0 libdb4.6 libdb4.7 libdbi-perl libdigest-sha1-perl
  libdirectfb-1.2-0 libgd2-noxpm libglib2.0-0 libgnutls26 libgraphviz4
  libhtml-parser-perl libio-compress-base-perl libio-compress-zlib-perl
  libldap-2.4-2 liblocale-gettext-perl libmysqlclient15off libpango1.0-0
  libpango1.0-common libpcre3 libperl5.10 libpixman-1-0 libselinux1 libstdc++6
  libsysfs2 libtext-charwidth-perl libtext-iconv-perl libthai-data libthai0
  libts-0.0-0 libunicode-map-perl libunicode-map8-perl libunicode-string-perl
  libxcb-render-util0 libxcb-render0 libxcb1 linux-libc-dev locales lzma
  mysql-common perl perl-base perl-modules tsconf

Lots of strange and/or superfluous dependencies, while the package foswiki-holidaylistplugin should depend on (foswiki-calendarplugin) is missing.

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actually, this is more to do with the DEPENDENCIES listed in the extension, so i'm setting it to there.

Foswiki::Plugins::SmiliesPlugin,,perl,Required
Date::Calc,,cpan,Required

my debian packaging has an automated script that uses the DEPENDENCIES file., and its results seem pretty reasonable

sven@quad:~/src/debian/foswiki$ apt-cache  showpkg foswiki-holidaylistplugin
Package: foswiki-holidaylistplugin
Versions: 
090307-192 (/var/lib/apt/lists/fosiki.com_Foswiki%5fdebian_dists_stable_main_binary-amd64_Packages)
 Description Language: 
                 File: /var/lib/apt/lists/fosiki.com_Foswiki%5fdebian_dists_stable_main_binary-amd64_Packages
                  MD5: 4bbead13c6fffac206aa0968ff65ce7e


Reverse Depends: 
Dependencies: 
090307-192 - foswiki (0 (null)) libdate-calc-perl (0 (null)) 
Provides: 
090307-192 - 
Reverse Provides: 

-- SvenDowideit - 26 Apr 2009