Bug#330467: SSL (JSSE) already provided by j2re1.4+

[Arnaud Vandyck]

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Julien Wajsberg wrote:
> On 28/09/05, Arnaud Vandyck <avdyk at debian.org> wrote:
> 
>>>Tomcat actually needs a JDK and not a JRE.
> 
> It already depends on a jdk. I suggested an _additional_ and
> _conditionnal_ dependency, not one that would replace the existing
> dependencies.

I don't understand why a conditional dependency on jessie. Jessie could
be installed along with jdk1.4 and provides better security!

>>>I believe the addition of
>>>the libjessie-java dependency is part of moving Tomcat 4 to main;
>>>Wolfgang and Arnaud can best answer that.  Since the Sun JRE/JDK is
>>>never an asuumption for anything moved to main, dependencies will
>>>seldom reflect a Sun-centric perspective.
> 
> I believe I used the "or" operator for the dependencies. That's why I
> don't think that the dependencies I suggested would prevent tomcat4
> from going to main. (But i'm maybe wrong on that though).

If jdk is a dependency, tomcat4 will not go to main.

> Maybe the best idea would be a "jsse" virtual package: libjessie-java
> would provide it, as would other packages like ones generated by
> java-package.

No, jessie is a javax.net security provider, as saxon, gnujaxp, xerces
are xml parsers. You can choose the one you want. I don't know why you
don't wanna have jessie in your system.

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