Comment 3 for bug 249178

There was a recent ubuntu-devel post by Matthias Klose on why we should keep -gcj recommends for now.

However keeping it here means a server installation of (for example) tomcat6 will pull in lots of unwanted X libraries through libecj-java-gcj -> libgcj-bc -> libgcj9-0 -> libgcj9-0-awt.

So I still think we have a good reason to downgrade it to "Suggests" here. Furthermore, I don't think libecj-java needs libecj-java-gcj in "all but unusual installations"...

Another way around this might be to drop the libgcj9-0-awt "Recommends" in libgcj9-0. Let me know if that would be a preferred way to fix this.