Re: RFC: provides: java-servlet-engine

2001-01-15 Thread Stefan Gybas
Nic Ferrier wrote: > Well... all 2.2 onwards compliant servlet engines now have such a > tool. I guess you are talking about the deployment descriptor (WEB-INF/web.xml) for webapps. But this is not what might be desired for Cocoon: If you set the *.xml mapping for a Cocoon webapp, it will only be

Re: RFC: provides: java-servlet-engine

2001-01-15 Thread Stefan Gybas
Nic Ferrier wrote: > Well... all 2.2 onwards compliant servlet engines now have such a > tool. I guess you are talking about the deployment descriptor (WEB-INF/web.xml) for webapps. But this is not what might be desired for Cocoon: If you set the *.xml mapping for a Cocoon webapp, it will only b

Re: RFC: provides: java-servlet-engine

2001-01-14 Thread Nic Ferrier
>>> Stefan Gybas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 14-Jan-01 9:50:49 PM >>> >Cocoon needs to me aware of the actual >serlvet engine to be able to do an automatic >setup and can't just depend on java-servlet-engine. >This would require a common setup tool for all >servlet engines Well... all 2.2 onwards comp

Re: RFC: provides: java-servlet-engine

2001-01-14 Thread Stefan Gybas
Thom May wrote: > To belatedly follow this up, should I take this > up on debian-policy , or is that not the correct way to get it > implemented? Doesn't look like anyone thought it was a bad > thing... You still did not tell me what we would gain from this virtual package (see my message to Debi

Re: RFC: provides: java-servlet-engine

2001-01-14 Thread Nic Ferrier
>>> Stefan Gybas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 14-Jan-01 9:50:49 PM >>> >Cocoon needs to me aware of the actual >serlvet engine to be able to do an automatic >setup and can't just depend on java-servlet-engine. >This would require a common setup tool for all >servlet engines Well... all 2.2 onwards com

Re: RFC: provides: java-servlet-engine

2001-01-14 Thread Thom May
To belatedly follow this up, should I take this up on debian-policy , or is that not the correct way to get it implemented? Doesn't look like anyone thought it was a bad thing... -Thom * Thom May ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote : > Folks, > I'm putting together a package for cocoon, which is a java > s

Re: RFC: provides: java-servlet-engine

2001-01-14 Thread Stefan Gybas
Thom May wrote: > To belatedly follow this up, should I take this > up on debian-policy , or is that not the correct way to get it > implemented? Doesn't look like anyone thought it was a bad > thing... You still did not tell me what we would gain from this virtual package (see my message to Deb

Re: RFC: provides: java-servlet-engine

2001-01-14 Thread Thom May
To belatedly follow this up, should I take this up on debian-policy , or is that not the correct way to get it implemented? Doesn't look like anyone thought it was a bad thing... -Thom * Thom May ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote : > Folks, > I'm putting together a package for cocoon, which is a java >

Re: RFC: provides: java-servlet-engine

2000-12-17 Thread Nic Ferrier
>>> Stefan Gybas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 17-Dec-00 1:00:45 PM >>> >I will ask the ftp admins to remove jserv and gnujsp >from the archives as soon as woody has been >released (i.e. they will not be in woody+1). >Both JServ and Tomcat are in contrib but Tomcat >implements the newer servlet specifica

Re: RFC: provides: java-servlet-engine

2000-12-17 Thread Nic Ferrier
>>> Stefan Gybas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 17-Dec-00 1:00:45 PM >>> >I will ask the ftp admins to remove jserv and gnujsp >from the archives as soon as woody has been >released (i.e. they will not be in woody+1). >Both JServ and Tomcat are in contrib but Tomcat >implements the newer servlet specific

Re: RFC: provides: java-servlet-engine

2000-12-17 Thread Stefan Gybas
Thom May wrote: > I'm putting together a package for cocoon, which is a java > servlet that serves xml pages. Do you know that there is already a Cocoon package in Debian (although it's an old version)? > So, in the control file i'd like to be able to specify "requires: > java-servlet-engine" an

Re: RFC: provides: java-servlet-engine

2000-12-17 Thread Stefan Gybas
Thom May wrote: > I'm putting together a package for cocoon, which is a java > servlet that serves xml pages. Do you know that there is already a Cocoon package in Debian (although it's an old version)? > So, in the control file i'd like to be able to specify "requires: > java-servlet-engine" a

Re: RFC: provides: java-servlet-engine

2000-12-16 Thread Seth Arnold
* Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [001216 16:16]: > > If I am not mistaken to precedence, the use precedes policy. Email the > > maintainers, and ask them to include the Provides: line. :) > > You are mistaken. > /usr/share/doc/debian-policy/virtual-package-names-list.text.gz says: > > > <-- sni

Re: RFC: provides: java-servlet-engine

2000-12-16 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Sat, 16 Dec 2000, Seth Arnold wrote: > * Nic Ferrier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [001216 09:59]: > > >>> Thom May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 16-Dec-00 3:28:18 PM >>> > > >So, in the control file i'd like to be able to specify "requires: > > >java-servlet-engine" and let apt get on with it, rather than > > >sa

Re: RFC: provides: java-servlet-engine

2000-12-16 Thread Seth Arnold
* Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [001216 16:16]: > > If I am not mistaken to precedence, the use precedes policy. Email the > > maintainers, and ask them to include the Provides: line. :) > > You are mistaken. > /usr/share/doc/debian-policy/virtual-package-names-list.text.gz says: > > > <-- sn

Re: RFC: provides: java-servlet-engine

2000-12-16 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Sat, 16 Dec 2000, Seth Arnold wrote: > * Nic Ferrier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [001216 09:59]: > > >>> Thom May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 16-Dec-00 3:28:18 PM >>> > > >So, in the control file i'd like to be able to specify "requires: > > >java-servlet-engine" and let apt get on with it, rather than > > >s

Re: RFC: provides: java-servlet-engine

2000-12-16 Thread Seth Arnold
* Nic Ferrier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [001216 09:59]: > >>> Thom May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 16-Dec-00 3:28:18 PM >>> > >So, in the control file i'd like to be able to specify "requires: > >java-servlet-engine" and let apt get on with it, rather than > >saying "requires: apache-jserv|tomcat" etc. > > Ther

Re: RFC: provides: java-servlet-engine

2000-12-16 Thread Nic Ferrier
>>> Thom May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 16-Dec-00 3:28:18 PM >>> >So, in the control file i'd like to be able to specify "requires: >java-servlet-engine" and let apt get on with it, rather than >saying "requires: apache-jserv|tomcat" etc. There are now quite a few servlet dependant tools out there. I wo

Re: RFC: provides: java-servlet-engine

2000-12-16 Thread Seth Arnold
* Nic Ferrier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [001216 09:59]: > >>> Thom May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 16-Dec-00 3:28:18 PM >>> > >So, in the control file i'd like to be able to specify "requires: > >java-servlet-engine" and let apt get on with it, rather than > >saying "requires: apache-jserv|tomcat" etc. > > The

Re: RFC: provides: java-servlet-engine

2000-12-16 Thread Nic Ferrier
>>> Thom May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 16-Dec-00 3:28:18 PM >>> >So, in the control file i'd like to be able to specify "requires: >java-servlet-engine" and let apt get on with it, rather than >saying "requires: apache-jserv|tomcat" etc. There are now quite a few servlet dependant tools out there. I w

RFC: provides: java-servlet-engine

2000-12-16 Thread Thom May
Folks, I'm putting together a package for cocoon, which is a java servlet that serves xml pages. So what?, I hear you cry... Well, the problem is this. Cocoon requires, strangely enough , a java servlet engine, such as tomcat, apache jserv, etc. So, in the control file i'd like to be able to specif

RFC: provides: java-servlet-engine

2000-12-16 Thread Thom May
Folks, I'm putting together a package for cocoon, which is a java servlet that serves xml pages. So what?, I hear you cry... Well, the problem is this. Cocoon requires, strangely enough , a java servlet engine, such as tomcat, apache jserv, etc. So, in the control file i'd like to be able to speci