Bug#856693: Drop ant dependency

2017-03-05 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi, On Sun, Mar 05, 2017 at 11:32:53AM +0100, Emmanuel Bourg wrote: > The ant dependency is only used for the excelant tasks [1] (which are > never used in Debian [2]). Any use of these tasks implicitly means Ant > is already on the classpath. In this context Ant can be seen as a > runtime, much

Bug#856693: Drop ant dependency

2017-03-05 Thread Emmanuel Bourg
The ant dependency is only used for the excelant tasks [1] (which are never used in Debian [2]). Any use of these tasks implicitly means Ant is already on the classpath. In this context Ant can be seen as a runtime, much like the Servlet API for web based stuff. So I think it makes sense to remove

Bug#856693: Drop ant dependency

2017-03-04 Thread 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

Bug#856693: Drop ant dependency

2017-03-04 Thread tony mancill
On Sat, Mar 04, 2017 at 01:30:47AM +0100, Michael Biebl wrote: > Source: libapache-poi-java > Version: 3.10.1-3 > Severity: important > > libapache-poi-java is an indirect dependency of libreoffice, so pulled > in on every desktop installation. > > Having a build tool like ant being pulled

Bug#856693: Drop ant dependency

2017-03-03 Thread Michael Biebl
Source: libapache-poi-java Version: 3.10.1-3 Severity: important libapache-poi-java is an indirect dependency of libreoffice, so pulled in on every desktop installation. Having a build tool like ant being pulled because of a library dependency is unwanted in such a case. Please consider dropping