To belatedly follow this up, should I take this up on debian-policy , or is that not the correct way to get it implemented? Doesn't look like anyone thought it was a bad thing... -Thom * Thom May (thom@planetarytramp.net) wrote : > Folks, > I'm putting together a package for cocoon, which is a java > servlet that serves xml pages. So what?, I hear you cry... > Well, the problem is this. Cocoon 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 "requires: > java-servlet-engine" and let apt get on with it, rather than > saying "requires: apache-jserv|tomcat" etc. > I can't see anything in the debian-java archives or the java > policy about this... > Would this be in line with the debian packaging policy, or is > there a better way of doing this? > Any ideas gratefully received :-) > -Thom > ** thom@planetarytramp.net **************** http://www.planetarytramp.net ** >
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