Can do more than suggest libxerces2-java-doc

[James Westby]

Hi,

The current libbcel-java-doc only suggests libxerces2-java-doc,
as the latter used to be in multiverse. It has now (in hardy)
moved to main, and as such the former can now go back
to depending on it.

Thanks,

James

[Savvas Radevic (medigeek)]

bcel (5.2-3ubuntu3) jaunty; urgency=low

  * debian/control: Added libbcel-java, libxerces2-java-doc back to
    "Depends:". (LP: #190247)

[Alexander Sack (asac)]

why a depends and not Recommends? is the xerces2 doc essential?

[Savvas Radevic (medigeek)]

I have no idea, I thought of supporting to revert the status of how it used to be. Perhaps James or Martin Pitt (uploader of that change) can give a better explanation.
Or we should file this to the Debian maintainer upstream?

This is the changelog note from 5.2-2ubuntu2:
  * Merge from debian unstable, remaining changes:
    - libbcel-java-doc: Add alternative dependency on libgcj-doc.
    - debian/control: Drop libbcel-java-doc's dependency to
      libxerces2-java-doc to a suggestion, since that is in multiverse.

This is how it was before (5.2-2ubuntu1) in Ubuntu debian/control:
Package: libbcel-java-doc
Architecture: all
Section: doc
Depends: libgcj-doc | classpath-doc, libxerces2-java-doc
Suggests: libbcel-java
Description: Documentation for Byte Code Engineering Library (BCEL)
 Documentation for the BCEL Java library which is used to manipulate Java
 bytecode.
 .
  Homepage: http://jakarta.apache.org/bcel/

This is the Debian debian/control (5.2-3):
Package: libbcel-java-doc
Architecture: all
Section: doc
Depends: classpath-doc, libxerces2-java-doc
Suggests: libbcel-java
Description: Documentation for Byte Code Engineering Library (BCEL)
 Documentation for the BCEL Java library which is used to manipulate Java
 bytecode.
 .
  Homepage: http://jakarta.apache.org/bcel/

I've added a new patch to set as Depends only "libxerces2-java-doc".

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

I agree, it should be reverted to what Debian has. Someone should file a bug against Debian's bcel to drop it to recommends, and also switch to default-jdk build system.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package bcel - 5.2-3ubuntu3

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bcel (5.2-3ubuntu3) jaunty; urgency=low

  * debian/control: Added libxerces2-java-doc back to "Depends:".
    (LP: #190247)

 -- Savvas Radevic <email address hidden> Fri, 20 Feb 2009 19:22:25 +0100

[Savvas Radevic (medigeek)]

I've sent a patch to Debian, including some of the previous ubuntu changes as well:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=517840