Hi, On Sat, Mar 04, 2017 at 11:40:53AM -0800, tony mancill wrote: > were causing a serious issue, we could discuss splitting ant into > something like "ant-bin" (maybe there's a better name) and libant-java, > so only the latter library package is a dependency of > libapache-poi-java. > > In that case, I think we would still want to have an "ant" package that > depended on both the library and the "ant-bin" cli build tools that are > found in /usr/bin and /usr/share/ant/bin. Perhaps another reason to
Or simply ant -> libant-java. IMHO no need for a extra ant-bin. > But in terms of overhead, I don't think there's anything to be concerned > about, because the ant wrapper scripts are tiny when compared to the jar > file itself: > > $ du -sh /usr/share/ant/bin > 40K /usr/share/ant/bin > > $ du -shL /usr/share/java/ant.jar > 2.0M /usr/share/java/ant.jar > > So this seems more like a question of style. Do you still think the > severity is important? Think so, yes. Doesn't the Java policy also say you should split the library out to a -java, anyways? Regards, Rene __ This is the maintainer address of Debian's Java team <http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-java-maintainers>. Please use debian-j...@lists.debian.org for discussions and questions.
