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

[Emmanuel Bourg]

Le 31/10/2013 14:47, Mauro Molinari a écrit :

> I see, but couldn't these dependencies just be "recommended"?

libjetty8-java-doc already recommends default-jdk-doc, maybe you meant
"suggested" instead?

> Anyway, I'm not so presumptuous to suggest to change a convention used
> for all the Debian packages for javadoc documentation sets, I just
> wanted to give my 2 cents on this.

Well so far libjetty8-java-doc complies with the Java policy which
requires that *-java-doc packages recommend the other documentation
package they are linked to.

Questioning a policy in the light of real use cases is definitely a sane
way to make it evolve. I have personally no strong opinion on this
topic, the *-java-doc packages have a very low popcon and I find them
more cumbersome than useful. So I wouldn't mind lowering the relation to
"Suggests", but this is a debate that should be open on the debian-java
list.

Emmanuel Bourg