On Sun, Oct 09, 2005 at 09:41:51PM -0500, Billy Biggs wrote: > Andreas Pakulat ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > On 10.10.05 00:01:02, Michael Koch wrote: > > > We (my sponsor and I) will upload Eclipse to the contrib section for > > > now as it depends on lucene and tomcat5 which are still in contrib. > > > > I'm curious: Why does Eclipse depend on tomcat5? At least the binaries > > from eclipse.org don't need it. > > My understanding is this: > > The binaries from eclipse.org include Tomcat4, it is used to run the > help server. Some part of tomcat4 requires non-free tools to build, and > so is not included in debian. There are two options: rip out the > non-free part of tomcat4 (the part isn't used by Eclipse) or update > Eclipse to tomcat5 and patch any broken pieces there.
The second option was done long ago, originally for Fedora. Cheers, Michael -- Escape the Java Trap with GNU Classpath! http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/java-trap.html Join the community at http://planet.classpath.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
