Gettext depending on libgcj

[Mark Syms]

Why is gettext in Dapper depending on libgcj? As far as I can tell there
are no Java components in gettext and I really don't want to have any of
the gcj components installed on my system, particularly as I have the
Sun development kit installed. The Debian package doesn't have this
dependency so why has it been added? If there are Java components that I
missed then these should be in a separate package that is only installed
if required.

And yes I know dapper is in development before I get flamed, but if
nobody uses it there are no meaningful bugs reported. If this is not the
intended dependencies for this package I'll raise a bug but I wanted to
check that it was not a result of somebodies grand plan.

Particularly ironic is that java-package depends on debhelper which
depends on po-debconf which depends on gettext. So to create the
installation package for the Sun Java distribution you need to install
at least some of gcj :(

Cheers,

	Mark.
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 189 bytes
Desc: This is a digitally signed message part
Url : http://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/attachments/20060104/9f7461c0/attachment.pgp