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

[James Page]

I think option 1 is probably the best approach - it's worked well in other areas

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James Page
Technical Lead, Ubuntu Server Team


On 13 Sep 2013, at 12:19, Emmanuel Bourg <ebourg at apache.org> wrote:

> 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 -> tomcat-catalina-ant-8.0.0.jar
>    tomcat8-catalina-tribes.jar -> tomcat-catalina-tribes-8.0.0.jar
>    tomcat8-annotations-api.jar -> tomcat-annotations-api-8.0.0.jar
>    tomcat8-api.jar -> tomcat-api-8.0.0.jar
>    tomcat8-catalina-ha.jar -> tomcat-catalina-ha-8.0.0.jar
>    tomcat8-catalina.jar -> tomcat-catalina-8.0.0.jar
>    tomcat8-coyote.jar -> tomcat-coyote-8.0.0.jar
>    tomcat8-i18n-es.jar -> tomcat-i18n-es-8.0.0.jar
>    tomcat8-i18n-fr.jar -> tomcat-i18n-fr-8.0.0.jar
>    tomcat8-i18n-ja.jar -> tomcat-i18n-ja-8.0.0.jar
>    tomcat8-jasper-el.jar -> tomcat-jasper-el-8.0.0.jar
>    tomcat8-jasper.jar -> tomcat-jasper-8.0.0.jar
>    tomcat8-juli.jar -> tomcat-juli-8.0.0.jar
>    tomcat8-util.jar -> tomcat-util-8.0.0.jar
> 
> 2. Move the jars and links in a subdirectory of /usr/share/java.
> 
>    /usr/share/java/tomcat8/tomcat-juli.jar -> ./tomcat-juli-8.0.0.jar
>    /usr/share/java/tomcat8/tomcat-util.jar -> ./tomcat-util-8.0.0.jar
> 
> 3. Don't put the unversioned links in /usr/share/java. If a reverse
> dependency requires a stable path for building it could use the Maven
> repository in /usr/share/maven-repo. The Maven based packages wouldn't
> be impacted, and the Ant based packages could use a path like:
> 
> 
> /usr/share/maven-repo/org/apache/tomcat/tomcat-jasper/8.x/tomcat-jasper-8.x.jar
> 
> What do you think?
> 
> Emmanuel Bourg
>