[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#682042: emboss-data: ships bulky taxonomy and gene ontology data

[Aaron M. Ucko]

Package: emboss-data
Version: 6.4.0-2
Severity: normal

emboss-data recently grew from a slim 5 megabytes to a massive 305.
Closer inspection reveals the primary culprits to be large taxonomy
and gene ontology databases:

 63927095 ./usr/share/EMBOSS/data/TAXONOMY/names.dmp
 58897689 ./usr/share/EMBOSS/index/taxon.xtax
 53221137 ./usr/share/EMBOSS/data/TAXONOMY/nodes.dmp
 28885180 ./usr/share/EMBOSS/index/taxon.xid
 23876286 ./usr/share/EMBOSS/index/taxon.xup
 20110641 ./usr/share/EMBOSS/data/OBO/gene_ontology.1_2.obo
 13816644 ./usr/share/EMBOSS/index/go.xde
  8964472 ./usr/share/EMBOSS/index/taxon.xrnk
  8963308 ./usr/share/EMBOSS/index/taxon.xgc
  6047464 ./usr/share/EMBOSS/index/go.xnm
  5642511 ./usr/share/EMBOSS/index/taxon.xmgc
  2504535 ./usr/share/EMBOSS/index/go.xac
  2220728 ./usr/share/EMBOSS/index/go.xis
  1292180 ./usr/share/EMBOSS/index/go.xid
[...]
   437512 ./usr/share/EMBOSS/index/go.xns

Could you please consider splitting them out into a separate package
or two, which emboss-data would then merely recommend (or perhaps
suggest, if few users actually need them)?

Thanks!