Bug#396170: tomcat5.5 depends on ecj-bootstrap

[Michael Koch]

On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 04:01:11PM +0200, Marcus Better wrote:
> Because jasper-compiler-jdt.jar is the Eclipse compiler. We shouldn't 
> duplicate code.
> 
> I agree that it shouldn't be a hard dependency though. There should probably 
> be an alternative dependency on an appropriate virtual package.
> 
> Moreover ecj-bootstrap should really be used as a bootstrap compiler only. 
> From the package description:
> "This bootstrap version should be used for uploading initial versions of 
> packages which are a dependency of Eclipse and build with ECJ."
> 
> Either the decsription should be fixed or the package renamed, or replaced 
> with something more suitable.

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=421621 got fixed in
unstable. I think it should now be possible to depend on libecj-java and
use that.


Cheers,
Michael
-- 
 .''`.  | Michael Koch <konqueror at gmx.de>
: :' :  | Free Java Developer <http://www.classpath.org>
`. `'   |
  `-    | 1024D/BAC5 4B28 D436 95E6 F2E0 BD11 5923 A008 2763 483B