Package: libcommons-cli-java
Version: 1.3.1-2
Tags: patch
Dear maintainer,
I discovered a bug report against Ubuntu [1] saying that
libcommons-cli-java unnecessarily depends on libcommons-lang-java.
After some digging I found an older, opposite bug report [2] in
Debian, from when the dependency was added.
When I grep through the package repo I cannot find any usage of
commons-lang in the current source code. In fact, if I'm reading
src/changes/changes.xml [3] correctly, it was removed from upstream
in version 1.1.
Thus, I believe this dependency can be removed from
libcommons-cli-java, and I have attached a patch which does so.
Two small notes:
1) I have built this locally, but since one of the other dependencies
pulls in libcommons-lang-java, it is hard to verify whether it builds
successfully without this package installed.
2) This might have consequences for reverse-dependencies which are
used to get libcommons-lang-java for free when depending on
libcommons-cli-java. So some of them might need an explicit
commons-lang dependency now, what would be the best approach to
inspect this?
[1]
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libcommons-cli-java/+bug/1235143
[2] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=445508
[3]
http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-java/libcommons-cli-java.git/tree/src/changes/changes.xml
--
mvh / best regards
Hans Joachim Desserud
http://desserud.org
diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index e09261d..25e16df 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -13,7 +13,6 @@ Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 9),
maven-debian-helper,
maven-repo-helper,
libmaven-assembly-plugin-java,
- libcommons-lang-java (>= 2.0),
junit4
Standards-Version: 3.9.6
Vcs-Git: git://anonscm.debian.org/pkg-java/libcommons-cli-java.git
@@ -22,7 +21,7 @@ Homepage: http://commons.apache.org/cli/
Package: libcommons-cli-java
Architecture: all
-Depends: ${misc:Depends}, libcommons-lang-java (>= 2.0)
+Depends: ${misc:Depends}
Description: API for working with the command line arguments and options
You define arguments you want to parse, parse arguments the user
entered and then you can retrieve them like properties
