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Re: Working on tomcat 5.5.x



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Wolfgang Baer wrote:
[...]
> Tomcat 5.5 switch to an ugly habit from the packager point of view.
> It doesn't anymore rely on the external jakarta libraries but on
> extracted modified (moved to another package namespace) source files
> instead.
> 
> For some stuff these source files are included, like for the new
> tomcat-util.jar file. However the database connection pooling stuff
> is not included and is downloaded / exctracted / modified during
> build time (but only with a special build script).
> 
> This has to be done beforehand and decided if the resulting
> java sources should be put in a repackaged orig tarball or if
> another source package tomcat-dbcp should be created which produces
> one binary libtomcat5-dbcp-java.
> 
> Opinions ?

No need to create a separate package IMHO. It seems this is just useful
for tomcat. Nobody would install this package without tomcat. You have
to disable the download task and *if* it's possible, add the patches or
the modifications in debian/patches.

Cheers,

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