Github user StephanEwen commented on the issue:
https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/5118
I think that the change of `1.` is actually not necessary. The dependencies
were good in my opinion:
- `flink-core` is not directly needed, because it is a transitive
dependency of `flink-java` and `flink-streaming-java`. Omitting this
unnecessary dependency makes it easier to keep the `-Pbuild-jar` profile in
sync with the normal profile.
- We added `flink-clients` explicitly because that is actually really the
dependency needed to execute programs (is needed in the DataSet API, flink-java
is not enough). It is only redundant at the moment because
`flink-streaming-java` depends on `flink-clients`, which is not really nice and
probably subject to change in the future.
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