Bug#632365: libxbean-java recommends groovy

Damien Raude-Morvan drazzib at drazzib.com
Fri Jul 1 19:46:50 UTC 2011


Le vendredi 01 juillet 2011 19:59:41, Phil Hagelberg a écrit :
> I'm working on packaging an application that needs libmaven2-core-java
> and noticed that installing my package would end up installing groovy,
> which is unrelated and unnecessary. I traced it to libxbean-java,
> which recommends groovy even though it seems unrelated.

[Just had a talk in #debian-java IRC chan about it]

Groovy is used in xbean-telnet which is implemented in 
groovy.lang.GroovyShell.

It seems a really uncommon use case, so we can downgrade it to Suggests.

Cheers,
-- 
Damien
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