Hi Tony, I had more of a think about this, and looked at some other packages that use libservlet2.5. They use the versioned jar files. Given the version is also in the package name I think this actually makes sense - the package won't work with some later libservlet* anyway without updating the dependencies.
I'm now in favour of your change to libservlet2.5-java, since it's the more recent API. It's supported by Tomcat 6 and Jetty 6, so I don't think it's likely to cause anyone a problem. Going with the older version is more likely to need changes sooner. Thanks, Andrew On 08/12/10 01:54, tony mancill wrote: > Hi Andrew, > > Yes, I was building the package with that change to the CLASSPATH. I'd like > to > ask the debian-java list if there is an opinion regarding whether such a > change > is warranted. It seems preferable to leave the CLASSPATH as it is with the > unversioned jars, but also to build against the new libservlet. > > Is there an upcoming transition after which libservlet2.5 deliver the > unversioned servlet-api and jsp-api jars? > > Thank you, > Tony > > On 12/07/2010 10:29 AM, Andrew Ross wrote: >> Hello Tony, >> >> Thanks for the offer to sponsor this package. The change to >> debian/copyright looks fine to me. I didn't use libservlet2.5-java as >> the current non-versioned jars (/usr/share/java/jsp-api.jar and >> /usr/share/java/servlet-api.jar) come from the libservlet2.4-java >> package. I believe changing to 2.5 would require the following CLASSPATH >> line in debian/rules instead of the current one. >> >> export CLASSPATH := >> /usr/share/java/servlet-api-2.5.jar:/usr/share/java/jsp-api-2.1.jar >> >> It certainly doesn't compile in my pbuilder without that change. I don't >> mind which option you go with - it shouldn't make any difference, as I >> think the parts of the servlet and jsp api being used are the same in >> 2.4 and 2.5. Whichever option you choose, feel free to update in svn and >> go ahead with the upload. >> >> Thanks, >> Andrew > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-java-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4d002013.10...@rossfamily.co.uk
