I agree that this would be a good policy. If this were an actual policy proposal (with the indicated textual change to policy), I think I would second it.
[Note also that some of these implementations support a lot more than just servlets -- some support jsp and or ejb.] Thanks, -- Raul On Sun, Jan 14, 2001 at 08:43:52PM +0000, Thom May wrote: > Package: debian-policy > Severity: wishlist > > Description: I suggested this to debian-devel and debian java > some time ago, and received many supporting comments. Due to > lack of time, i was never able to follow it up. > "Well, the problem is this. A java servlet 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 specify "depends: > java-servlet-engine" and let apt get on with it, rather than > saying "depends: apache-jserv|tomcat|jrun|jboss|weblogic" etc. > I can't see anything in the debian-java archives or the java > policy about this... > > Please CC me as I am not on debian-policy
