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the depended-on package is required for the depending package to
provide a significant amount of functionality." I don't personally
feel that smart card support represents that significant amount, and
seeing as how it has not been provided as depends up to now, some sort
of justification ought to be provided for why it shouldn't instead be
classified as Recommends, which again from [1] says: "The Recommends
field should list packages that would be found together with this one
in all but unusual installations."

So, please +1 remove dependency and mark as recommends if you feel
strongly about it, or suggests as noted earlier.

[1] http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-relationships.html#s-binarydeps