Bug#228142: ant-doc should contain manual

[Stefan Gybas]

tags 228142 wontfix
severity 228142 wishlist
thanks

Ross Burton wrote:

> ant-doc doesn't contain all of the Ant documentation.  I haven't installed the
> "ant" package as I don't want to install jython etc, but this means that I
> cannot read the manual.

If I move the documentation from ant to ant-doc, ant will just contain 
the /usr/bin/ant wrapper. I don't want this to happen. The meaning of 
the ant packag is "a complete Ant environment (if possible with what is 
packaged in Debian)" with all required dependencies. There's 
libant1.5-java and there will soon be libant1.6-java and 
libant1.6-contrib-java (so something like this) with limited dependencies.

I don't think an ant-extras or ant-full package will be sensible (and 
accepted by the FTP masters) since it would just consist of additional 
dependencies when I reduce the functionality/dependencies of the main 
ant package.

> (of course I think that "ant" should just be the basic tasks, and the extra tasks
> such as jython should be in separate packages)

This will be true for the libant*-java package (which should be used for 
build dependencies). But the ant package will always be as I've defined 
above. I could understand your agument if ant depended on packages that 
start services but it just depends on other library packages (some with 
wrapper scipts). IMHO you should not worry too much about disk space 
when using Java...

Stefan