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[Michael Biebl <biebl@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Source: openjdk-8
Version: 8u111-b14-3
Severity: normal
User: pkg-gnome-maintainers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Usertags: oldlibs

Hi,

libgnome, gnomevfs and gconf have long been deprecated and replaced
upstream by GTK+, GIO/GVFS and dconf.

On a typical stretch desktop/GNOME installation, openjdk-8-jre (*) seems to
be the only remaining package which pulls in those old libraries via
  Recommends: libgnome-2-0, libgnomevfs2-0, libgconf2-4

We don't want those old libraries installed by default though.

Which functionality of openjdk is still relying on those libraries?

Please consider demoting this to Suggests or dropping it completely.

Regards,
Michael

(*) openjdk-8-jre is pulled via libreoffice
-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers unstable-debug
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'unstable'), (200, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.8.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)