Dependency on libbsf-java is invalid

In fact, the binary package 'groovy' should not have any dependency on any lib*-java not 'antlr' as those libs are all included directly in the groovy package. See the file list here: http://packages.ubuntu.com/hardy/all/groovy/filelist

It looks like the developer put the same dependencies for the binary package as for the source package and this is wrong.

groovy (1.5.6-1ubuntu1) intrepid; urgency=low

  * Remove unneeded dependencies (LP: #239906)
  * Modify Maintainer value to match the DebianMaintainerField
    specification.

 -- Nathan Handler <email address hidden> Sun, 06 Jul 2008 22:37:21 -0500

In my opinion, you are fixing the problem in wrong way. We need to fix the package to not include the jar files from other libraries.

I don't believe the package is including jar files at all. The result of dpkg-deb -c on groovy_1.5.6-1 in intrepid show links to the libraries in /usr/share/java:

luis@trinity:~/dev/groovy$ dpkg-deb -c groovy_1.5.6-1_all.deb
drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2008-05-12 07:17 ./
drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2008-05-12 07:17 ./usr/
drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2008-05-12 07:17 ./usr/share/
drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2008-05-12 07:17 ./usr/share/doc/
drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2008-05-12 07:17 ./usr/share/doc/groovy/
-rw-r--r-- root/root 3232 2008-05-12 07:16 ./usr/share/doc/groovy/README.Debian
-rw-r--r-- root/root 2223 2008-05-12 07:16 ./usr/share/doc/groovy/copyright
-rw-r--r-- root/root 1421 2008-05-12 07:16 ./usr/share/doc/groovy/changelog.Debian.gz
drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2008-05-12 07:17 ./usr/share/man/
drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2008-05-12 07:17 ./usr/share/man/man1/
-rw-r--r-- root/root 874 2008-05-12 07:17 ./usr/share/man/man1/groovy.1.gz
-rw-r--r-- root/root 451 2008-05-12 07:17 ./usr/share/man/man1/groovyc.1.gz
drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2008-05-12 07:17 ./usr/share/groovy/
drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2008-05-12 07:17 ./usr/share/groovy/bin/
-rwxr-xr-x root/root 759 2008-05-12 07:17 ./usr/share/groovy/bin/groovy
-rwxr-xr-x root/root 605 2008-05-12 07:17 ./usr/share/groovy/bin/groovyConsole
-rwxr-xr-x root/root 626 2008-05-12 07:17 ./usr/share/groovy/bin/groovyc
-rwxr-xr-x root/root 714 2008-05-12 07:17 ./usr/share/groovy/bin/groovysh
-rwxr-xr-x root/root 633 2008-05-12 07:17 ./usr/share/groovy/bin/java2groovy
-rwxr-xr-x root/root 8009 2008-05-12 07:17 ./usr/share/groovy/bin/startGroovy
drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2008-05-12 07:17 ./usr/share/groovy/conf/
-rw-r--r-- root/root 892 2008-04-25 12:26 ./usr/share/groovy/conf/groovy-starter.conf
drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2008-05-12 07:17 ./usr/share/groovy/lib/
-rw-r--r-- root/root 2304286 2008-05-12 07:17 ./usr/share/groovy/lib/groovy-1.5.6.jar
drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2008-05-12 07:17 ./usr/share/java/
drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2008-05-12 07:17 ./usr/bin/
lrwxrwxrwx root/root 0 2008-05-12 07:17 ./usr/share/man/man1/startGroovy.1.gz -> groovy.1.gz
lrwxrwxrwx root/root 0 2008-05-12 07:17 ./usr/share/man/man1/groovyConsole.1.gz -> groovy.1.gz
lrwxrwxrwx root/root 0 2008-05-12 07:17 ./usr/share/man/man1/java2groovy.1.gz -> groovy.1.gz
lrwxrwxrwx root/root 0 2008-05-12 07:17 ./usr/share/man/man1/groovysh.1.gz -> groovy.1.gz
lrwxrwxrwx root/root 0 2008-05-12 07:17 ./usr/share/groovy/lib/xpp3.jar -> ../../java/xpp3.jar
lrwxrwxrwx root/root 0 2008-05-12 07:17 ./usr/share/groovy/lib/xstream.jar -> ../../java/xstream.jar
lrwxrwxrwx root/root 0 2008-05-12 07:17 ./usr/share/groovy/lib/servlet-api.jar -> ../../java/servlet-api.jar
lrwxrwxrwx root/root 0 2008-05-12 07:17 ./usr/share/groovy/lib/regexp.jar -> ../../java/regexp.jar
lrwxrwxrwx root/root 0 2008-05-12 07:17 ./usr/share/groovy/lib/mx4j.jar -> ../../java/mx4j.jar
lrwxrwxrwx root/root 0 2008-05-12 07:17 ./usr/share/groovy/lib/mockobjects-core.jar -...

I submitted a debdiff on bug #256325 that removes the bsf runtime dependency.

the fix from bug #256325 was applied

The fix does not seem to be in Ubuntu Lucid.
Here is the list of package that aptitude want to install when adding 'groovy':

  antlr{a} groovy ivy{a} junit4{a} libantlr-java{a} libasm2-java{a} libbsf-java{a} libcommons-cli-java{a}
  libcommons-lang-java{a} libcommons-logging-java{a} libhamcrest-java{a} libjline-java{a} libmockobjects-java{a}
  libregexp-java{a} libservlet2.5-java{a} libxpp3-java{a} libxstream-java{a}

libbasf-java is still in the list. And also many other packages (antlr, ivy, junit, libservlet2.5-java) which clearly should not be necessary to run Groovy script from the terminal.
It looks like that the list of packages required for *building* Groovy has been copied to the binary package for the Groovy runtime.

The bug is still in Ubuntu Maverick: groovy still depends on libbsf-java.