Bug#330467: SSL (JSSE) already provided by j2re1.4+

Wed Sep 28 08:12:46 UTC 2005

On Wed, Sep 28, 2005 at 09:58:32AM +0200, Julien Wajsberg wrote:
> Package: tomcat4
> Version: 4.1.31-4
> Severity: normal
> 
> Hi
> 
> Tomcat4 depends on libjessie-java, which provides an SSL
> implementation, "aiming for compliance and compatibility with the JSSE
> as it exists in Java 1.4".
> 
> If the Sun J2RE 1.4+ is already installed there is no need to install
> libjessie. Therefore the dependencies should read :
> libjessie-java | j2re1.4 | j2re1.5

Not tomcat should depend on libjessie-java but the different runtimes
that need it to be compatible with the proprietary. As far as I know
most if not all do already. This needs to be checked then we can remove
this dependency in tomcat4 totally.

Cheers,
Michael
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