Re: Java JSP Tomcat

[Aaron Brashears <aaron@myplay.com>]

>         I'm currently in the Debian 'new maintainer' queue. When I come out
>         the other end I intend to package Tomcat and a couple other pieces of
>         Apache software up (unless someone else has already sent out an ITP
>         mail).

I just pulled down tomcat 4.0, which requires jdk1.3 (or 1.2.2 with
jndi), jsse, and jmx packages from sun which are all non-free. Won't
this relegate tomcat to the contrib section? Blackdown provides non-free
debs for jdk1.3 but jsse and jmx are only available in zip form with a
fairly restrictive license. How do you plan to help distribute those
packages?

FYI: I've decided to experiment making debs using tomcat, so I'm
wrestling with this issue right now. I've decided to make 'installer'
debs which install the zip file from /tmp.