Package: libatk-wrapper-java-jni
Version: 0.30.4-1
Severity: important
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Recent updates of java-openjdk insist on installing parts of the gnome
desktop environment. More precisely, obsolete parts of the obsolete
gnome2 DE.
libatk is an enhancement of gtk+. As such, it is a basis for the gnome
desktop, but not part of the gnome desktop. There are people that like
to use kde only as their desktop environment, or only use a window
manager and no DE at all, and frown upon the needless installation of
parts of other desktop environments. Especially if those parts insist on
installing additional daemons and clutter the home directory with
additional dot-subdirectories.
As of version 0.30, if not earlier, reliance on gconf is considered an
error in the upstream source, see the .news file for 0.30.2 [1] and
0.30.4 [2]. Additionally, the ubuntu package for the recent version does
not depend on gconf2.
I always believed that it was a policy of debian to keep package
dependencies as tight as possible. So please remove the no longer
necessary gcon2 dependency, libgconf2-4
<http://packages.debian.org/sid/libgconf2-4>.
With kind regards, Lutz Lehmann
[1]
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/java-atk-wrapper/0.30/java-atk-wrapper-0.30.2.news
[2]
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/java-atk-wrapper/0.30/java-atk-wrapper-0.30.4.news
[3] http://packages.ubuntu.com/precise/libatk-wrapper-java-jni
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Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-2-amd64
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
700 testing ftp.de.debian.org
600 stable security.debian.org
600 stable ftp.uni-kl.de
600 stable ftp.de.debian.org