Bug#685298: Impossible to simultaneously install libtomcat7-java and libtomcat6-java

2014-09-26 Thread Emmanuel Bourg
tags -1 wontfix close -1 stop Tomcat 6 is going to be removed, so we won't fix this specific issue between Tomcat 6 and 7, but we took care to use different paths for Tomcat 8 and libtomcat7-java can be installed simultaneously with libtomcat8-java. Emmanuel Bourg __ This is the maintainer

Bug#685298: Impossible to simultaneously install libtomcat7-java and libtomcat6-java

2013-09-13 Thread Emmanuel Bourg
Hi, I started working on the tomcat8 package and I'd like to avoid the same conflict with tomcat7. What would be the best solution? 1. Change the name of the unversioned jars to tomcat8-xxx.jar. That would give the following links in /usr/share/java: tomcat8-catalina-ant.jar -

Bug#685298: Impossible to simultaneously install libtomcat7-java and libtomcat6-java

2013-09-13 Thread James Page
I think option 1 is probably the best approach - it's worked well in other areas -- James Page Technical Lead, Ubuntu Server Team On 13 Sep 2013, at 12:19, Emmanuel Bourg ebo...@apache.org wrote: Hi, I started working on the tomcat8 package and I'd like to avoid the same conflict with

Bug#685298: Impossible to simultaneously install libtomcat7-java and libtomcat6-java

2013-09-13 Thread Loyall, David
of was the classloader? Cheers, --Dave -Original Message- From: Emmanuel Bourg [mailto:ebo...@apache.org] Sent: Friday, September 13, 2013 6:19 AM To: 685...@bugs.debian.org Cc: tony mancill; Loyall, David; Jakub Adam Subject: Re: Bug#685298: Impossible to simultaneously install libtomcat7-java

Bug#685298: Impossible to simultaneously install libtomcat7-java and libtomcat6-java

2013-08-03 Thread tony mancill
On 07/31/2013 09:49 AM, Loyall, David wrote: Can't we change libtomcat6-java and libtomcat7-java to keep those jars in /usr/share/tomcat6/ and /usr/share/tomcat7/ instead of /usr/share/java/ ? Having tomcat6 and tomcat7 on the same machine is a very common use case for Java developers.

Bug#685298: Impossible to simultaneously install libtomcat7-java and libtomcat6-java

2013-07-31 Thread Loyall, David
Can't we change libtomcat6-java and libtomcat7-java to keep those jars in /usr/share/tomcat6/ and /usr/share/tomcat7/ instead of /usr/share/java/ ? Having tomcat6 and tomcat7 on the same machine is a very common use case for Java developers. And eschewing The Eclipse Way in favor of The Debian