Feature Freeze Exception for glassfishv2

[Nitya Doraisamy]

*** Proposed change

Add new glassfishv2ur1 package and it's dependency packages
(Name changed to glassfishv2)
Uploaded to REVU on Feb 14
See,
http://revu.ubuntuwire.com/details.py?package=glassfishv2
http://revu.ubuntuwire.com/details.py?package=imqv2
The packages ares new and there are no other dependencies, it does not affect the distribution

*** Rationale
Include Project GlassFish V2 UR1
GlassFish Application Server is an open source, enterprise class, community based implementation of Java Enterprise Edition 5 (Java EE 5)
It is sponsored by Sun Microsystems, with TopLink persistence code, donated by Oracle.
GlassFish Application Server v2 Update 1 provides advanced features such as support for clustering, high availability through in-memory replication, advanced monitoring, a very easy to use administration console and much more.

GlassFish provides an easy-to-use platform for developing/hosting web applications (servlets and JSPs), EJB's modules and enterprise applications

This is the first integration of this package and there are no code diffs against older versions. cleanly.

[Onkar Shinde (onkarshinde)]

Can you please take a look at existing packages glassfish-* packages in Ubuntu and tell us if this is just an upgrade? It looks like we are carrying old version of glassfish-bin, sunwderby and imq (1.0.1) but everything else has been upgraded to some prerelease of 2ur1 (2+b58g-2).

I believe that you should first try changing the source of glassfish-* (2+b58g) to create a glassfish-bin and glassfish. And then try upgrading this package to latest version, 2ur1 in this case.
Unless you are tying to have parallely installable packages with different root folders, you should remove v2ur1 from package names. Ubuntu version should look something like this 2+ur1-0ubuntu1, indicating that it is greater than 2+b58g-2.

If you have any questions please feel free to ask them on #ubuntu-motu on irc.freenode.net

[Nitya Doraisamy (nitya-doraisamy)]

The glassfish-* packages in Ubuntu are for GlassFish V1 packages. The idea was is to have GlassFish v2 ur1 installed independently of GlassFish v1
as parallel packages with different install locations. This will help prevent any incompatibilities between v1 and v2 causing any disruption to users who
already have a stable v1 based development or deployment environment.

In addition, GlassFish v2 ur1 provides an upgrade tool for users who might want to move their deployment environments to the latest server version

[Scott Kitterman (kitterman)]

Provided the packaging is in good shape, we should probably support this. I check with ubuntu-release and if the packages are uploadable, they can probably get an archive-admin to work them through New processing. Please work with the MOTUs to get two acks on the package. Once it's ready for upload, I'll ack the request (can't speak for the others though and you need two).

[Nitya Doraisamy (nitya-doraisamy)]

Changed package name to glassfishv2, glassfishv2-bin and imqv2

Removed bundling of own copy of javadb (sunwderby-v2ur1). glassfishv2 depends on sun-javadb-core instead. See,
http://revu.tauware.de/details.py?package=sun-javadb

[Scott Kitterman (kitterman)]

Ack from me.

[StefanPotyra (sistpoty)]

Ok, after a short discussion on irc, ACK #2 from me.

Please note however that you still need to get the package reviewed, which I guess might be problematic (but hopefully happens in time). Maybe you could ask for reviewers on the mailing list or on irc stating that the FFe is granted? Thanks.