Bug#452370: tomcat5.5: build libservlet2.4-java package from Tomcat sources

[Michael Koch]

On Thu, Nov 22, 2007 at 11:04:02AM +0100, Marcus Better wrote:
> Package: tomcat5.5
> Version: 5.5.25-1
> Severity: normal
> 
> The libservlet2.4-java{-gcj} packages are currently built from source
> package libservlet2.4-java, which contains only sources extracted from
> Tomcat. This leads to source duplication which is a Bad Thing. (I
> believe the reason for doing this was to break dependency cycles, but
> now that Tomcat is in the archive there is no reason to do this.)
> 
> Unless someone opposes this, I am going to have tomcat5.5 build those
> packages instead. Then the libservlet2.4-java source package can be
> removed.

Before you do this: Will tomcat6 then build libservlet2.5-java too? What
happens to libservlet2.4-java when we have tomcat6 and remove tomcat5.5
from the archive? We will probably need libservlet2.4-java much longer
then tomcat5.5.

And another idea would be to build libapache2-mod-jk from tomcat{6.6|6}.

What do you think?


Cheers,
Michael