Bug#506220: Not clear, why I need ant-gcj

[Michael Biebl]

Package: ant
Version: 1.7.0-6
Severity: normal

ant-gcj is a Recommends of ant, so it is installed by default, when you
install ant.
The package descriptions of ant and ant-gcj are identical and I also
couldn't find any explanation in a README.Debian or the changelog, why I
should have ant-gcj installed (ant-gcj has quite a long dependency list).

So this bug report is twofold:
- Please improve the description of ant-gcj, why I should install it and
  the relationship to ant
- For the sake of a more sane dependency list, please demote ant-gcj to
  a Suggests, unless it is really important enough, to have ant-gcj
  installed.


Cheers,
Michael


-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (300, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.27.6
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages ant depends on:
pn  java-gcj-compat-dev | java-vi <none>     (no description available)
ii  libxerces2-java               2.9.1-2    Validating XML parser for Java wit
ii  sun-java6-jre [java2-runtime] 6-10-2     Sun Java(TM) Runtime Environment (

Versions of packages ant recommends:
pn  ant-gcj                       <none>     (no description available)
pn  ant-optional                  <none>     (no description available)

Versions of packages ant suggests:
pn  ant-doc                       <none>     (no description available)

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