Openjdk installation pulls in needless GNOME 2 dependencies

[Barry Shilliday]

Description:

When installing version 7 of openjdk, lots of GNOME 2 dependencies are pulled in along with it. This clutters up a system with obsolete libraries.

The problem is not present in openjdk-6.

Version:

Problem present in (at least) 12.04.2 and 13.04.

Expectation:

JRE/JDK installed with necessary libraries.

Actual result:

Old GNOME 2 libraries are installed.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: openjdk-7-jre (not installed)
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-27.46~precise1-generic 3.5.7.7
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-27-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu17.2
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Apr 30 19:58:38 2013
MarkForUpload: True
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: openjdk-7
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Brett Wilkins (brettwilkins)]

This is especially a problem inside a docker lsc container, where device creation is disabled, thereby rendering fuse (depended on by gvfs) uninstallable.

[Barry Shilliday (teppic74)]

This issue is still present in 14.04. Attempting to install the JDK on a fresh installation,

The following NEW packages will be installed
  ca-certificates-java fonts-dejavu-extra icedtea-7-jre-jamvm java-common
  libatk-wrapper-java libatk-wrapper-java-jni libbonobo2-0 libbonobo2-common
  libgconf2-4 libgnome2-0 libgnome2-bin libgnome2-common libgnomevfs2-0
  libgnomevfs2-common libice-dev libidl-common libidl0 libnss3-1d liborbit-2-0
  liborbit2 libpthread-stubs0-dev libsm-dev libx11-dev libx11-doc libxau-dev
  libxcb1-dev libxdmcp-dev libxt-dev openjdk-7-jdk openjdk-7-jre
  openjdk-7-jre-headless tzdata-java x11proto-core-dev x11proto-input-dev
  x11proto-kb-dev xorg-sgml-doctools xtrans-dev

[Kevin Krumwiede (kjkrum)]

Two and a half years later, still no fix...

Canonical needs to gamify package maintenance, and the user community needs to be able to "fire" package maintainers.