Bug#884536: Consider dropping jython build-dep?

[Chris West]

Source: batik
Version: 1.9-3
Priority: wishlist


batik pulls jython, and a whole load of related libraries, into the
"key packages" set[1], which complicates transitions[2].

Please consider not building the Jython bindings, to drop this
dependency.

Upstream supports this, and the installed libbatik-java only suggests
jython, as the bindings are entirely optional.

The jython bindings don't seem to be used by any of the rdeps, but I
didn't check very hard. Jython is generally not very widely used at all
in Debian, which makes it reasonably easy to say this.

As with most Java libraries, I expect any real users, if there are any,
will be pulling the JARs from maven central, so won't care what we have
built.


Cheers,
Chris.

 1: https://udd.debian.org/cgi-bin/key_packages.yaml.cgi
 2: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=828451#48