Bug#801026: osgi-compendium: depends on obsolete libservlet2.5-java library

[Markus Koschany]

Am 05.10.2015 um 21:26 schrieb Neil Bartlett:
> This isn’t really possible. The osgi-compendium package is not just a program or library; it represents a specification published by a standards body, the OSGi Alliance. The specification supports the java servlet API 2.5 and above. We cannot simply update to 3.1 since that could break any consumers using 2.5 — also the package would not comply with the published specification.
> 
> Neil Bartlett

Hello,

you contradict yourself by claiming that The OSGi Compendium 5
specification supports the Java servlet API 2.5 and above and in the
next sentence you claim it only supports 2.5.

I think your first part is correct. I quote from page 795 of the
specification:

"This Web Application Specification provides support for web
applications written to the Servlet 2.5
specification, or later"

So I see this more like a minimum requirement. I have also never
understood why we build-depend on libservlet2.5-java at all given the
fact that it is not needed at build-time. I would rather tend to
completely remove the build-dependency and the corresponding dependency
on libservlet2.5-java but not before I have checked that all
reverse-dependencies do not rely on this behaviour.

Can you provide an example what package in Debian would be negatively
affected if we started to build-depend/depend on libservlet3.1-java?

Regards,

Markus

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