Re: debian java BoF - 2014/08/25

2014-08-29 Thread Emmanuel Bourg
Le 28/08/2014 00:24, tony mancill a écrit : > Tomcat version for jessie: > > In a subsequent conversation, Miguel and I discussed targeting tomcat8 > for jessie and removing tomcat6 and tomcat7 binary packages from the > archive. If there are objections to this plan, please speak up. > tomcat8 w

Re: debian java BoF - 2014/08/25

2014-08-29 Thread tony mancill
Hi Emmanuel: On 08/29/2014 01:09 AM, Emmanuel Bourg wrote: > Le 28/08/2014 00:24, tony mancill a écrit : > >> Tomcat version for jessie: >> >> In a subsequent conversation, Miguel and I discussed targeting tomcat8 >> for jessie and removing tomcat6 and tomcat7 binary packages from the >> archive.

Debian Games Pure Blend: Java development task

2014-08-29 Thread Markus Koschany
Hello, I am working on the Debian Games Pure Blend [1] to facilitate the installation and development of games and to increase the visibility of free software games and developer tools in and outside of Debian. I have created a task for the development of games in the Java programming language [2

Re: debian java BoF - 2014/08/25

2014-08-29 Thread Miguel Landaeta
On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 10:09:05AM +0200, Emmanuel Bourg wrote: > > I think we have too many dependencies on tomcat6 to remove it completely > for Jessie. But we can at least change the tomcat6 source package to > build only: > - libservlet2.5-java: this package is the most commonly used as a buil

Re: debian java BoF - 2014/08/25

2014-08-29 Thread Andrew Schurman
I hacked the maven-debian-helper scripts to see if they would work with maven3. I've tried it with one of the packages that I've created (libweupnp-java) and it appears to almost work while only changing the maven version. Everything ran fine except the javadoc generation (likely something I missed

Re: debian java BoF - 2014/08/25

2014-08-29 Thread Emmanuel Bourg
Le 29/08/2014 16:41, tony mancill a écrit : > We were discussing yesterday whether libservlet 3.0 was backwards > compatible with 2.5, or whether tomcat8 could provide a 2.5 interface > package. I take you don't think this is the right course of action. The Servlet API 3.0 isn't fully compatible

Re: debian java BoF - 2014/08/25

2014-08-29 Thread Emmanuel Bourg
Le 29/08/2014 19:00, Miguel Landaeta a écrit : > I don't agree and I'd prefer if we can maintain only one tomcat for > the next stable release. I understand it's preferable from a maintainer point of view, but from a user point of view I think choice is good too. Tomcat updates are usually easy

Re: debian java BoF - 2014/08/25

2014-08-29 Thread Miguel Landaeta
On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 11:02:41PM +0200, Emmanuel Bourg wrote: > > Tomcat updates are usually easy to package, the build system doesn't > change, the code is stable and well tested (starting with tomcat7). If > we could convince the release/security teams to upload full updates of > tomcat{7,8} i

Re: debian java BoF - 2014/08/25

2014-08-29 Thread Emmanuel Bourg
Le 29/08/2014 23:39, Miguel Landaeta a écrit : > We already have the precedent of shipping 6 and 7 versions in a stable > release, so maybe they can agree on that again if we can provide some > assurance that tomcat7 is going to be supported at upstream during > "jessie" lifecycle. I asked upstre