Bug#835382: liblog4j2-java-doc: depends on default-jdk-doc, mysteriously and unnecessarily

[Zenaan Harkness]

Package: liblog4j2-java-doc
Version: 2.0~beta9-1
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

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   * What led up to the situation?

I tried to run eclipse, and got an error "Unrecognized VM option 'UseStringDeduplication'"

Turns out eclipse-4.6 requires java 8, and default-jre on Debian stable is java7.

This package dependency chain unnecessarily causes default-jre to be installed, causing default java (/etc/alternatives) to be java 7.

   * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
     ineffective)?

I uninstalled this package for now, there's some update-alternatives thing if I really needed to have this documentation installed, but I am not installing jre (and jdk!) version 7, and its documentation!, just to get liblog4j2-java-doc installed!!!

   * What was the outcome of this action?

I removed liblog4j2-java-doc to solve the bloat.

   * What outcome did you expect instead?

liblog4j2-java-doc should be installable without depending on default-java!

Thanks :)
Zenaan

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