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kotlin package and dependencies

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Hello,

I've asked the question to debian-user@lists.debian.org and got the 
suggestion to ask here.


I'm using the kotlin package since I wanted to use the kotlinc compiler, 
and noticed that it lists following packages as dependencies

  * ant
  * libmaven-compiler-plugin-java
  * libmaven-plugin-tools-java
  * libmaven3-core-java


I'm not using ant or maven, so this install (through transitive 
dependencies) over 300 MB of unnecessary data:

----
Summary:
   Upgrading: 0, Installing: 76, Removing: 0, Not Upgrading: 959
   Download size: 69.8 MB
   Space needed: 324 MB
----


If I force the installation without those packages, I get following summary:

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Summary:
   Upgrading: 0, Installing: 3, Removing: 0, Not Upgrading: 959
   Download size: 0 B / 6,380 B
   Space needed: 27.6 kB
----


Since the kotlin compiler does not depend on 
libmaven-compiler-plugin-java libmaven-plugin-tools-java 
libmaven3-core-java ant, would it make sense to move those dependencies 
to recommended, or remove them altogether?

The complete list of installed transitive dependencies is

   ant                           libcommons-parent-java libjsoup-java 
               libmaven3-core-java libplexus-utils2-java
   libaopalliance-java           libcommons-text-java libjsr305-java 
            libplexus-ant-factory-java libplexus-velocity-java
   libapache-pom-java            libdoxia-core-java libjtidy-java 
       libplexus-archiver-java libplexus-xml-java
   libasm-java                   liberror-prone-java 
libjuniversalchardet-java         libplexus-bsh-factory-java libqdox2-java
   libatinject-jsr330-api-java   libgeronimo-annotation-1.3-spec-java 
libmaven-archiver-java            libplexus-build-api-java 
libsisu-inject-java
   libbsh-java                   libgeronimo-interceptor-3.0-spec-java 
libmaven-compiler-plugin-java     libplexus-cipher-java libsisu-plexus-java
   libcdi-api-java               libguava-java 
libmaven-file-management-java     libplexus-classworlds-java libslf4j-java
   libcommons-cli-java           libguice-java libmaven-jar-plugin-java 
        libplexus-compiler-java libsnappy-java
   libcommons-codec-java         libhttpclient-java libmaven-parent-java 
              libplexus-component-annotations-java libsnappy-jni
   libcommons-collections3-java  libhttpcore-java 
libmaven-plugin-tools-java        libplexus-container-default-java 
libtrove-intellij-java
   libcommons-compress-java      libjansi-java 
libmaven-reporting-api-java       libplexus-container-default1.5-java 
libvavr0-java
   libcommons-io-java            libjetbrains-annotations-java 
libmaven-resolver-java            libplexus-interpolation-java 
libwagon-provider-api-java
   libcommons-lang-java          libjline3-java 
libmaven-shared-incremental-java  libplexus-io-java libxbean-reflect-java
   libcommons-lang3-java         libjna-java libmaven-shared-io-java 
   libplexus-languages-java libxz-java
   libcommons-logging-java       libjna-jni libmaven-shared-utils-java 
    libplexus-sec-dispatcher-java velocity

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