Bug#856693: Drop ant dependency

[Rene Engelhard]

Hi,

On Sat, Mar 04, 2017 at 11:40:53AM -0800, tony mancill wrote:
> were causing a serious issue, we could discuss splitting ant into
> something like "ant-bin" (maybe there's a better name) and libant-java,
> so only the latter library package is a dependency of
> libapache-poi-java.  
>
> In that case, I think we would still want to have an "ant" package that
> depended on both the library and the "ant-bin" cli build tools that are
> found in /usr/bin and /usr/share/ant/bin.  Perhaps another reason to

Or simply ant -> libant-java. IMHO no need for a extra ant-bin.

> But in terms of overhead, I don't think there's anything to be concerned
> about, because the ant wrapper scripts are tiny when compared to the jar
> file itself:
> 
> $ du -sh /usr/share/ant/bin
> 40K	/usr/share/ant/bin
> 
> $ du -shL /usr/share/java/ant.jar
> 2.0M	/usr/share/java/ant.jar
> 
> So this seems more like a question of style.  Do you still think the
> severity is important?

Think so, yes. Doesn't the Java policy also say you should split the library
out to a -java, anyways?

Regards,

Rene