I think option 1 is probably the best approach - it's worked well in other areas
-- James Page Technical Lead, Ubuntu Server Team On 13 Sep 2013, at 12:19, Emmanuel Bourg <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I started working on the tomcat8 package and I'd like to avoid the same > conflict with tomcat7. What would be the best solution? > > 1. Change the name of the unversioned jars to tomcat8-xxx.jar. That > would give the following links in /usr/share/java: > > tomcat8-catalina-ant.jar -> tomcat-catalina-ant-8.0.0.jar > tomcat8-catalina-tribes.jar -> tomcat-catalina-tribes-8.0.0.jar > tomcat8-annotations-api.jar -> tomcat-annotations-api-8.0.0.jar > tomcat8-api.jar -> tomcat-api-8.0.0.jar > tomcat8-catalina-ha.jar -> tomcat-catalina-ha-8.0.0.jar > tomcat8-catalina.jar -> tomcat-catalina-8.0.0.jar > tomcat8-coyote.jar -> tomcat-coyote-8.0.0.jar > tomcat8-i18n-es.jar -> tomcat-i18n-es-8.0.0.jar > tomcat8-i18n-fr.jar -> tomcat-i18n-fr-8.0.0.jar > tomcat8-i18n-ja.jar -> tomcat-i18n-ja-8.0.0.jar > tomcat8-jasper-el.jar -> tomcat-jasper-el-8.0.0.jar > tomcat8-jasper.jar -> tomcat-jasper-8.0.0.jar > tomcat8-juli.jar -> tomcat-juli-8.0.0.jar > tomcat8-util.jar -> tomcat-util-8.0.0.jar > > 2. Move the jars and links in a subdirectory of /usr/share/java. > > /usr/share/java/tomcat8/tomcat-juli.jar -> ./tomcat-juli-8.0.0.jar > /usr/share/java/tomcat8/tomcat-util.jar -> ./tomcat-util-8.0.0.jar > > 3. Don't put the unversioned links in /usr/share/java. If a reverse > dependency requires a stable path for building it could use the Maven > repository in /usr/share/maven-repo. The Maven based packages wouldn't > be impacted, and the Ant based packages could use a path like: > > > /usr/share/maven-repo/org/apache/tomcat/tomcat-jasper/8.x/tomcat-jasper-8.x.jar > > What do you think? > > Emmanuel Bourg > __ This is the maintainer address of Debian's Java team <http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-java-maintainers>. Please use [email protected] for discussions and questions.
