Bug#759643: jetty8: Please replace dependencies on tomcat7 with tomcat8

[Miguel Landaeta]

tags 759643 + wontfix
thanks

On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 01:58:05PM +0200, Emmanuel Bourg wrote:
> I don't think it's possible to combine jetty8 with libtomcat8-java.
> Tomcat 8 uses the Servlet API 3.1 and JSP 2.3, but Jetty 8 uses the
> Servlet API 3.0 and JSP 2.2. I haven't tried but it's likely to break at
> runtime if the JSP compiler relies on Servlet 3.1 features.
> 
> We should instead package jetty9 and remove jetty8, but it's too late
> for Jessie.
> 

OK, my intention was mostly to get away from tomcat6 and thinking in
only releasing tomcat8 with "jessie" but this is not going to happen
anyway.

Thanks for taking a look at this issue.

I'm tagging this bug accordingly as wontfix.

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