Bug#728375: libjetty8-java-doc: Questionable dependencies

Mauro Molinari mauromol at tiscali.it
Thu Oct 31 11:51:23 UTC 2013


Package: libjetty8-java-doc
Version: 8.1.3-4
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,
if I try to do the following on my system:
aptitude install libjetty8-java-doc
the system says (I'm translating from Italian):

The following NEW packages will be installed:
  default-jdk-doc{a} libgnuinet-java{a} libgnujaf-java-doc{a}
  libgnumail-java-doc{a} libjetty8-java-doc libservlet2.5-java-doc{a}
  openjdk-6-doc{a}
0 updated packages, 7 installed, 0 to remove and 0 outdated.
It's necessary to download 23.6 MB of archives. After extraction, they will use 274 MB.
Continue? [Y/n/?]

Well, 274 MB to install a package which just contains some HTML pages (the Javadoc for Jetty 8) seems quite too much to me...
After all, I don't think I need any of those packages to simply browse that documentation.

I'm still a novice for Debian, so please don't blame on me if my report is not appropriate.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.1
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=it_IT.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=it_IT.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash



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