Why is CPython 2.5 a dependency for Jython 2.5?

[rusi]

On Wednesday, July 3, 2013 5:52:12 PM UTC+5:30, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> Does anyone know why CPython 2.5 is a dependency for Jython 2.5.1+ on 
> Debian squeeze?

Not exactly answering your question...
The debian dependencies can be fairly 'conservative' which means all kinds of stuff is pulled in 'just-in-case'
eg Ive seen aptitude build-dep pull in a ridiculous amount of doc-stuff like latex (whose size is of the order of GBs) probably because some document format may require it.