-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Stefan Gybas wrote: > Shobhit Jindal wrote: > >> plzz someone clarify why tomcat5.5 wos introduced as a new package and >> not a upgrade to tomcat5 > > This was done because Tomcat 5.5 was designed to run on JDK 1.5 while > Tomcat 5.0 also supports JDK 1.4. For example, I'm currently working on > a project were we have to stick with JDK 1.4 for various reasons. So I'm > not able to use Tomcat 5.5 yet.
Tomcat5.5 in Debian should work with JDK1.4. > Another advantage is that the tomcat5 and tomcat5.5 packages can be > installed at the same time so you can test your web applications with > both versions or make a step-by-step upgrade. The configurations are different and we needed tomcat5 for eclipse and we were not sure tomcat5.5 works 'out-of-the-box' with eclipse. When we'll be sure tomcat5.5 and eclipse works well, maybe we'll drop tomcat5. >> and why its still in experimental(and dat too .15 and not .17 which has >> been released quite some time back)? > > I think it's in experimental because there are still bugs in the > package. Please search the mailing list archive and BTS for details. > Tomcat 5.5.15 was used because it was the current version at the time > when work started on the tomcat5.5 package. I didn't have much time to work on the package. Wolfgang helped me but it's a preliminary package heritated from tomcat5 and I don't think you can put the tomcat5.5 debian package on a production server! See the BTS (http://bugs.debian.org/tomcat5.5) > You can provide a patch that fixes theses bugs so the package can move > to unstable more quickly. You can also upgrade to 5.5.17 in your patch > if you want to. > > Please note that we want the tomcat5.5 package to be in main so it must > be buildable und runable with a JDK from main. ... a free one (as in DFSG). Cheers, - -- .''`. : :' :rnaud `. `' `- Java Trap: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/java-trap.html -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFE/VXw4vzFZu62tMIRAhdhAJ463rbgSp6Kk5brlo6eBFYAtRWQ/gCgjc5I 8cGRdJTPHd+KdVQXvlmQkAk= =uGOf -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ pkg-java-maintainers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-java-maintainers
