On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 3:24 AM, James Page <james.p...@ubuntu.com> wrote: > I think that this highlights a couple of issues: > > 1) The long term future of the sun jre/jdk in Debian - if and when it > gets removed from non-free then quite a few of those paths are going > to be obsolete.
That's right. > 2) The fact that none of the tomcat7 packages actually depend on a > java runtime environment - it actually gets pulled in by > libcommons-dbcp-java which is not right (can't believe I've not > noticed that before...) In my case, the java runtime was introduced by libecj-java that has a recommends on default-jre-headless. > I think we should introduce a dependency on default-jre-headless | > java-5-runtime | java-6-runtime in tomcat7-common and switch to using > /usr/lib/jvm/default-java. That way we are saying that this is the > supported/tested jre from Debian. Agreed. > If someone wants to download a different JRE/JDK from Oracle thats > fine - and we should let them set an appropriate JAVA_HOME through > /etc/default/tomcat7 is they want to go down this route - it looks > like this is already supported in the package and overrides JDK_DIRS. Agreed. > The above also applies to the tomcat6 package. I also noticed that. I cloned this bugreport for tomcat6. Cheers, -- Miguel Landaeta, miguel at miguel.cc secure email with PGP 0x7D8967E9 available at http://keyserver.pgp.com/ "Faith means not wanting to know what is true." -- Nietzsche -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
