Bug#452370: tomcat5.5: build libservlet2.4-java package from Tomcatsources

Stefan Gybas stefan at gybas.com
Thu Nov 22 11:50:29 UTC 2007


Hi Marcus,

On Thu, 22 Nov 2007 11:04:02 +0100, Marcus Better <marcus at better.se> wrote:

> [...] (I
> believe the reason for doing this was to break dependency cycles, but
> now that Tomcat is in the archive there is no reason to do this.)

I think the main reason was because Tomcat used to be in contrib for a long
time and we wanted the Servlet API to be in main. The packaging structure
was then simply adopted from the old Tomcat packages.

Stefan







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