'Tedious' is probably an euphemism. There are many Java packages that can't be bootstrapped properly due to circular dependencies. If it's not a hard requirement mandated by the policies I don't think it's fair to mark this as serious. It's certainly nice to have, hence the wishlist severity, but that doesn't limit our ability to use and modify the packages.
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