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[Barry Shilliday <1174884@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1174884

Title:
  Openjdk installation pulls in needless GNOME 2 dependencies

Status in “openjdk-7” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  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)

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