diff -Nru bsdmainutils-12.1.2/debian/changelog bsdmainutils-12.1.2+rpi1/debian/changelog
--- bsdmainutils-12.1.2/debian/changelog	2020-06-22 10:42:08.000000000 +0000
+++ bsdmainutils-12.1.2+rpi1/debian/changelog	2020-06-25 12:36:50.000000000 +0000
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+bsdmainutils (12.1.2+rpi1) bullseye-staging; urgency=medium
+
+  * bump up recommends on bsdextrautils to a depends for now until Debian
+    figures out where exactly they are going with this.
+
+ -- Peter Michael Green <plugwash@raspbian.org>  Thu, 25 Jun 2020 12:36:50 +0000
+
 bsdmainutils (12.1.2) unstable; urgency=medium
 
   [ Michael Meskes ]
diff -Nru bsdmainutils-12.1.2/debian/control bsdmainutils-12.1.2+rpi1/debian/control
--- bsdmainutils-12.1.2/debian/control	2020-06-22 10:42:08.000000000 +0000
+++ bsdmainutils-12.1.2+rpi1/debian/control	2020-06-25 12:36:50.000000000 +0000
@@ -13,10 +13,9 @@
 Package: bsdmainutils
 Architecture: any
 Multi-Arch: foreign
-Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}, bsdutils (>= 3.0-0), debianutils (>= 1.8)
+Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}, bsdutils (>= 3.0-0), debianutils (>= 1.8), bsdextrautils
 Breaks: bsdutils (<< 1:2.13-11)
 Suggests: calendar, wamerican | wordlist, whois, vacation
-Recommends: bsdextrautils
 Description: collection of more utilities from FreeBSD
  This package contains lots of small programs many people expect to find when
  they use a BSD-style Unix system.