Package: ant Severity: wishlist Version: 1.7.0-6 User: [email protected] Usertags: origin-ubuntu karmic
ant currently has: Depends: java-gcj-compat-dev | java-virtual-machine, java-gcj-compat | java1-runtime | java2-runtime, libxerces2-java However, ant doesn't *require* a JDK to run. It is used increasingly in server packages to run tasks that don't involve compilation, and having this hard dependency on "java-gcj-compat-dev | java-virtual-machine" pulls a complete JDK (with related X libraries) in a server install. The suggestion would be to depend on a headless runtime, and make default-jdk a "Suggests" instead: Depends: default-jre-headless | java1-runtime-headless | java2-runtime-headless, libxerces2-java Recommends: ant-optional, ant-gcj Suggests: default-jdk | java-compiler | java-sdk, ant-doc This is what is currently used in Ubuntu karmic. Cheers, -- Thierry Carrez -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
