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Re: Moving Freemarker back to main, and the servlet-api

On Thu, May 08, 2008 at 06:37:32AM +0200, Marcus Better wrote:
> Paul Cager wrote:
> > So I propose we create a new package, libservlet2.5-java, using the
> > Tomcat 6 source code (I realise Tomcat 6 isn't in Debian yet).
> 
> There is an open bug (#452370) about building libservlet2.4-java from
> tomcat5.5 source package, and so get rid of the libservlet2.4-java source
> package (which is copied from tomcat5.5 anyway). Actually it's mostly done
> in my tree, I need to clean it up and check in...
> 
> Anyway it would be good not to add another cloned source package once we
> package Tomcat 6. So why not make a "tomcat6" source package now, but build
> only libservlet2.5-java from it? Then we can add the other parts and have
> only one source package.

We can still remove a libservlet2.5-java source package again when
tomcat6 is in the archive, but are right. This way is probably less
pain.


Cheers,
Michael
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