Bug#394745: libxerces2-java: remove dependency on libjaxp1.3-java

[Marcus Better]

Package: libxerces2-java
Version: 2.8.0-1
Severity: wishlist

For some reasons (bootstrapping?) we split the JAXP APIs from Xerces
into separate source packages libjaxp1.2-java and
libjaxp1.3-java. This is error prone, as evidenced by bug #394221.

I suggest building the latest JAXP API package together with Xerces so
that the correct version will be installed automatically. The older
versions can be built separately. (But they should really be
obsolete.)

For bootstrapping _only_, a package libjaxp1.3-bootstrap-java can be
built. Even this is probably unnecessary since libgcj now contains
JAXP APIs.

Comments please?

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.17-1-686
Locale: LANG=sv_SE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=sv_SE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages libxerces2-java depends on:
ii  gij [java2-runtime]           4:4.1.1-11 The GNU Java bytecode interpreter
ii  gij-4.1 [java1-runtime]       4.1.1-16   The GNU Java bytecode interpreter
ii  kaffe-pthreads [java1-runtime 2:1.1.7-4  A POSIX threads enabled version of
ii  libjaxp1.2-java               1.2.01-1   Java XML parser and transformer AP
ii  sun-java5-jre [java2-runtime] 1.5.0-08-1 Sun Java(TM) Runtime Environment (

libxerces2-java recommends no packages.

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