Any reason to clean up unused imports in Java, other than reducing clutter?

Question

Is there any good reason to avoid unused import statements in Java? As I understand it, they are there for the compiler, so lots of unused imports won\'t have any impacts o

Answer 1

For me, one unused class import in a controller class created a compilation problem in Jenkins build after i deleted the imported class during code cleanup and committed the deletion in git without testing a build in local.