Bug#588005: Does antlr3 really requires maven ?

[Vincent Fourmond]

Package: antlr3
Version: 3.2-3
Severity: wishlist

  Hello,

  While upgrading to the newer antlr3 (3.2-3), I noticed that the
newer antlr3 pulls in maven libmaven2-core-java, which in turn pulls
in about 33 MB of dependencies. Is that absolutely necessary to run
antlr3 ? As maven is a project management tool, I find it weird.

  I'm glad a lot of work has been invested into making debian packages
maven-friendly, but that would be great if that didn't mean we have to
force maven on all users of java software.

  In short, with maven downgraded to a Recommend, would antlr3 still
work ? 

  Many thanks,

       Vincent

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages antlr3 depends on:
ii  default-jre [java2-runtime]   1.6-38     Standard Java or Java compatible R
ii  default-jre-headless          1.6-38     Standard Java or Java compatible R
ii  libstringtemplate-java        3.2.1-1    StringTemplate templating engine f
ii  openjdk-6-jre [java2-runtime] 6b18-1.8-3 OpenJDK Java runtime, using Hotspo

Versions of packages antlr3 recommends:
pn  antlr3-gcj                    <none>     (no description available)

antlr3 suggests no packages.

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