Bug#835382: liblog4j2-java-doc: depends on default-jdk-doc, mysteriously and unnecessarily

[Emmanuel Bourg]

On 08/25/2016 10:00 AM, Zenaan Harkness wrote:

> You are right. I raced off to install it again, and indeed the jre is
> not installed.
> 
> Thanks for letting me know. Is there any reason it has to depend on
> default-jdk-doc at all? As in, what's wrong with openjdk-8-doc, or just
> liblog4j2-java-doc by itself? (no biggie...)

Many *-java-doc packages recommend or depend on default-jdk-doc because
the documentation of the library contains links to the documentation of
the core Java classes.


> Apologies for the noise. Thanks for your patience :)

No need to apology, we are glad to get feedback on our work :)

Emmanuel Bourg