Re: Rethinking the Servlet API packaging

2018-08-12 Thread Markus Koschany
Am 12.08.2018 um 00:52 schrieb Emmanuel Bourg: [...] >> I can start packaging >> libservlet4.0-java (I would name source and binary package the same). Is >> it this one? >> >> https://github.com/javaee/servlet-spec/releases/tag/4.0.1 > > Yes that's this one, thank you for jumping in but I've alre

Re: Rethinking the Servlet API packaging

2018-08-11 Thread Thorsten Glaser
On Sun, 12 Aug 2018, Emmanuel Bourg wrote: > (servlet-api), and spin-off a versionned packages only if required due Either way (versioned or not), wouldn’t libservlet-api-java be a less conflicting, more in line with the common practice at Debian, package name? (Consider Perl stuff.) J

Re: Rethinking the Servlet API packaging

2018-08-11 Thread Emmanuel Bourg
Le 11/08/2018 à 09:19, Markus Koschany a écrit : > That is a very good idea. I also think that it makes sense to decouple > the Servlet API from src:tomcat{7,8,9} > > +1 > > +1 Thank you for the feedback! > As long as we don't have to change reverse-dependencies and everything > is just a dro

Re: Rethinking the Servlet API packaging

2018-08-11 Thread Markus Koschany
Hi! Am 06.08.2018 um 12:47 schrieb Emmanuel Bourg: > Hi all, > > I'm starting to plan the packaging of Tomcat 9 which should be the > version of Tomcat shipped with Buster. Before doing that I'd like to > rethink how the Servlet/JSP API are packaged in Debian. [...] That is a very good idea. I

Re: Rethinking the Servlet API packaging

2018-08-08 Thread Emmanuel Bourg
Le 06/08/2018 à 12:47, Emmanuel Bourg a écrit : > Historically the > tomcat packages have been the source of the libservlet-java packages: > * src:tomcat6 had libservlet2.5-java containing the Servlet 2.5, > JSP 2.1 and EL 2.1 APIs > * src:tomcat7 has libservlet3.0-java containing the Servlet 3.

Re: Rethinking the Servlet API packaging

2018-08-06 Thread Eugen Stan
Hello Emanual, I agree the servlet-api should live/be built by their own packages. >From a development point of view they are part of Java EE/Jakarta EE and tomcat consumes them.  Having multiple versions of the API in Debian also makes. Regards, Eugen On 06.08.2018 13:47, Emmanuel Bourg wrot