Bug#458399: jetty: Jetty depends on a java 1.5 package

[Michael Koch]

On Mon, Dec 31, 2007 at 12:15:13AM +0100, marcel wrote:
> Package: jetty
> Version: 5.1.14-1
> Severity: important
> 
> The JspServlet contained in libtomcat5.5-java is compiled with Java 1.5 (class version 49.0)
> which will not run on a java 1.4 runtime which should be enough to run Jetty.

The problem is that Jetty depends on (and uses) libtomcat5.5-java. The
Tomcat source uses (among other Java5 features) generics. That is the
reason wht this class file is only for Java5 and the reason why jetty in
Debian needs Java5 too.


Cheers,
Michael