On Sun, 2006-08-06 at 17:08 +0100, MrDemeanour wrote: > Andrew Vaughan wrote: > > > > Debian stable is uh, stable. Except for security bugs or other > > serious bugs, it doesn't get updated. > > I see. I've read Kraft's "Debian System" book several times, but I > hadn't twigged that stable can't get packages added to it. So if I want > to run Tomcat on main, than I need a machine tht isn't running Sarge. > OK, thanks. > > > > > If you prefer tomcat4, why not just use the packages in contrib. > > Everything in contrib is supposed to be free software. It just has > > build and/or runtime dependencies on non-free software. > > That was a bit of a throwaway; if I have to be non-free at all, I may as > well go the whole hog, and run it on Windoze. I'm not up for compromises.
That is a pretty dumb statement, why would you want to move to Windows just because you can't run a single piece of non-free software for a while until a new Debian version is released? > > > > If you want to use debian's Tomcat5 packages, then a quick look at > > the dependencies suggest that a mixed sarge/etch system is probably > > ok iff you're prepared to run a Sun/IBM jre/jdk. > > Yup. See above. If it's not free, then I don't really see the point of > struggling with it atg all. > > > You could also create an etch chroot and run Tomcat from there. > > I know what chroot is supposed to do; but I'm no linux guru, and I don't > yet understand how I can use chroot to isolate etch from a system that > thinks it's Sarge. I'll have to look into that. > > >> Is there some place I can keep up-to-date on what is going on with > >> Tomcat 5.5 in Etch? > >> > > You could subscribe to the individual packages at > > http://packages.qa.debian.org/t/tomcat5.html > > http://packages.qa.debian.org/t/tomcat5.5.html > > Yah. My mailbox will complain - those tend to generate bot traffic. I > meant human-originated stuff. > > [snippage] > > > Jetty is in contrib (unstable only). A quick look shows no obvious > > reason why it couldn't be moved to main, so it may still be in > > contrib purely because no-ones gotten around to moving it. (It > > build-depends on ant, which was in contrib when Jetty was first > > uploaded.) > > Java stuff tends to depend on ant; I read something that seemed to say > that ant was licence-dodgy, at some point in time. Pages need timestamps! That is also false, Ant has always been under the Apache Software License which has always been Debian-compliant. [snip] -- Trygve -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
