Hi Niels, Kalle, I'm not using jspwiki now, but have in the past. I'll look at trying to get the package installable for inclusion in squeeze and then we can address the upgrade and group maintenance question. Cheers, tony On 10/25/2010 11:21 PM, Niels Thykier wrote: > # Causes install failure. > severity 592677 grave > thanks > > On 2010-10-26 07:36, tony mancill wrote: >> On 10/22/2010 03:28 AM, David Goodenough wrote: >>> JspWiki seems to require tomcat 5.5 (it requires for instance a userid >>> of tomcat55) but it recommends tomcat6. It is a few mod levels back >>> (the current version in testing/sid is 2.8.0, the current version at >>> apache.org is 2.8.4). There are two bugs outstanding for it which >>> do not seem to have been answered from this year. >>> >>> Because of the problem with the tomcat55 userid it is currently impossible >>> to install it. > > Hmmm, looks like #592677 ought to be grave. > > Maybe we can do an upload for Squeeze fixing that and possible fix some > dependency stuff (see below). > > >> Hi David, > > > Hey > >> The package isn't currently maintained by the java team, so I'm copying >> the maintainers to see if they have objections to either team >> maintenance or an NMU. > > > Actually we are in the process of adopting it[1]. Unfortunately I never > got around to finish it and the changes required to jspwiki are not... > "freeze-exception compatible". > > One of the major changes is that jspwiki used to have all its dependency > libraries embedded within it and most of these have by now been replaced > with system jars. We got a dependency or two that is still unpacked though. > Obviously we cannot deploy this kind of changes now without getting in > trouble with the Release Team. But jspwiki is the last package depending > on serlvet2.3 and it does not appear to use it anyway (instead it uses > its embedded version). I thinking we could remove this > (Build-)Dependency and then have servlet2.3 removed from Squeeze and > unstable. That would fix the "easy half" of #581024. > > Also, I do not use jspwiki, so I would appreciate some jspwiki using > people working on this package (either with me or without me :P ) > > >> Thanks, >> tony > > > ~Niels > > [1] http://git.debian.org/?p=pkg-java/jspwiki.git;a=summary
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