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[Bob Bib <bobbib@xxxxxxx>]

Package: openjdk-7-jdk
Version: 7u65-2.5.1-4
Severity: wishlist

Dear Maintainer,

as it's stated in changelog.Debian, the 'libxt-dev' dependency was added
in openjdk-6 (6b11-5):
  * openjdk-6-jdk: Recommend libxt-dev (jawt_md.h header includes).

>From what I can see in '/usr/lib/jvm/java-7-openjdk-amd64/include',
the headers from the 'libx11-dev' & 'libxt-dev' packages
(<X11/Xlib.h>, <X11/Xutil.h>, <X11/Intrinsic.h>)
are used for AWT JNI functions only.

If it's not a widely-used feature, then, IMHO,
X11 development packages shouldn't be installed by default, so
wouldn't it be better to move 'libxt-dev' from recommends to suggests?

-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.14-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages openjdk-7-jdk depends on:
ii  libc6          2.19-7
ii  libx11-6       2:1.6.2-2
ii  openjdk-7-jre  7u65-2.5.1-4

Versions of packages openjdk-7-jdk recommends:
pn  libxt-dev  <none>

Versions of packages openjdk-7-jdk suggests:
pn  openjdk-7-demo    <none>
pn  openjdk-7-source  <none>
pn  visualvm          <none>

-- no debconf information

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Best wishes,
Bob