Please see https://bugs.debian.org/982085
I think it's wrong to encode build dependencies for language stacks that are not available on some platforms, just using a profile. Seen in gettext: default-jdk <!nojava>, maven-repo-helper <!nojava> and also in db5.3. A more cooperative usage of such build dependencies can be seen in brltty collectd gdcm liblouisutdml link-grammar octave opencv openmpi r-base rjava swi-prolog ucx vtk7 vtk9 z3 and probably other packages. These dependencies should look like: default-jdk [!hppa !hurd-i386 !kfreebsd-any] or default-jdk [alpha amd64 arm64 armel armhf i386 ia64 m68k mips64el mipsel powerpc ppc64 ppc64el riscv64 s390x sh4 sparc64 x32] It's also ok to use something like default-jdk [!hppa !hurd-i386 !kfreebsd-any] <!nojava> to be able to build with the nojava profile. I also see this used in many mono related build dependencies. Having such build dependencies in a package that is a required package for almost everything isn't helpful. Matthias