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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?>
+<linux-packaging>
+  <mapping>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>org.mortbay.jetty</groupId>
+      <artifactId>jsp-api-2.1-glassfish</artifactId>
+      <debian available="false"/>
+      <redhat available="false"/>
+    </dependency>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>ch.qos.logback</groupId>
+      <artifactId>logback-classic</artifactId>
+      <required-classes>
+        <class>ch.qos.logback.classic.LoggerContext</class>
+      </required-classes>
+      <debian criteria="&gt;= 0.9.18">liblogback-java</debian>
+      <redhat available="false"/>
+    </dependency>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>javax.servlet</groupId>
+      <artifactId>servlet-api</artifactId>
+      <version>2.5</version>
+      <required-classes>
+        <class>javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet</class>
+      </required-classes>
+      <debian available="false"/>
+      <redhat avaialble="false">tomcat6-servlet-2.5-api</redhat>
+    </dependency>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>junit</groupId>
+      <artifactId>junit</artifactId>
+      <!-- In order to assure proper packaging setup, a few classes
+           should be specified to check for on the classpath.
+           If these classes are not present on the classpath, then
+           the jar is downloaded from the maven repo and used in
+           an embedded fashion. -->
+      <required-classes>
+        <class>junit.framework.Assert</class>
+        <class>junit.framework.TestCase</class>
+      </required-classes>
+      <!-- The debian packaging refers to the version-less package name.
+           An optional criteria can be specified that would indicate
+           a minimum version to be present on the system.
+           This information will (eventually) be verified against
+           the debian/control file to ensure that the packaging
+           is still valid.
+           If the information is determined to not be present
+           in the debian/control file than a build error is
+           (hopefully) produced to let the maintainers know
+           that this information is now out of date. -->
+      <debian criteria="&gt;= 3.8">junit</debian>
+      <redhat>junit</redhat>
+    </dependency>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>org.eclipse.jdt.core.compiler</groupId>
+      <artifactId>ecj</artifactId>
+      <debian available="false"/>
+      <redhat>eclipse-ecj</redhat>
+    </dependency>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>org.mortbay.jetty</groupId>
+      <artifactId>jsp-2.1-glassfish</artifactId>
+      <debian available="false"/>
+      <redhat available="false"/>
+    </dependency>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>ch.qos.logback</groupId>
+      <artifactId>logback-core</artifactId>
+      <required-classes>
+        <class>ch.qos.logback.core.joran.JoranConfiguratorBase</class>
+      </required-classes>
+      <debian criteria="&gt;= 0.9.18">liblogback-java</debian>
+      <redhat available="false"/>
+    </dependency>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>org.apache.geronimo.specs</groupId>
+      <artifactId>geronimo-jaspic_1.0_spec</artifactId>
+      <debian available="false"/>
+      <redhat available="false"/>
+    </dependency>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>org.eclipse.equinox.http</groupId>
+      <artifactId>servlet</artifactId>
+      <debian criteria="&gt;= 3.5">eclipse-platform</debian>
+    </dependency>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>org.eclipse.osgi</groupId>
+      <artifactId>services</artifactId>
+      <debian available="false"/>
+      <redhat available="false"/>
+    </dependency>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>org.apache.geronimo.specs</groupId>
+      <artifactId>geronimo-jta_1.1_spec</artifactId>
+      <debian available="false">libgeronimo-jta-1.1-spec-1.1.1-java</debian>
+      <redhat available="false"/>
+    </dependency>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>org.eclipse</groupId>
+      <artifactId>osgi</artifactId>
+      <required-classes>
+        <class>org.osgi.framework.BundleContext</class>
+      </required-classes>
+      <debian available="false"/>
+      <redhat available="false"/>
+    </dependency>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
+      <artifactId>jcl-over-slf4j</artifactId>
+      <debian criteria="&gt;= 1.5.10">libslf4j-java</debian>
+      <redhat available="false"/>
+    </dependency>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>asm</groupId>
+      <artifactId>asm-commons</artifactId>
+      <debian criteria="&gt;= 3.1">libasm3-java</debian>
+      <redhat available="false"/>
+    </dependency>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>ant</groupId>
+      <artifactId>ant</artifactId>
+      <debian criteria="&gt;= 1.6">ant</debian>
+      <redhat>ant</redhat>
+    </dependency>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>asm</groupId>
+      <artifactId>asm</artifactId>
+      <debian criteria="&gt;= 3.1">libasm3-java</debian>
+      <redhat available="false"/>
+    </dependency>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>asm</groupId>
+      <artifactId>asm-tree</artifactId>
+      <debian criteria="&gt;= 3.1">libasm3-java</debian>
+      <redhat available="false"/>
+    </dependency>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>javax.mail</groupId>
+      <artifactId>mail</artifactId>
+      <required-classes>
+        <class>javax.mail.Authenticator</class>
+        <class>javax.mail.PasswordAuthentication</class>
+        <class>javax.mail.Session</class>
+      </required-classes>
+      <debian>libgnumail-java</debian>
+      <redhat available="false"/>
+    </dependency>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>org.apache.geronimo.specs</groupId>
+      <artifactId>geronimo-annotation_1.0_spec</artifactId>
+      <debian available="false"/>
+      <redhat available="false"/>
+    </dependency>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
+      <artifactId>log4j-over-slf4j</artifactId>
+      <debian criteria="&gt;= 1.5.10">libslf4j-java</debian>
+      <redhat available="false"/>
+    </dependency>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>org.testng</groupId>
+      <artifactId>testng</artifactId>
+      <debian criteria="&gt;= 5.8">testng</debian>
+      <redhat available="false"/>
+    </dependency>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>org.mortbay.jetty</groupId>
+      <artifactId>servlet-api</artifactId>
+      <version>3.0.20100224</version>
+      <required-classes>
+        <class>javax.servlet.AsyncContext</class>
+        <class>javax.servlet.AsyncEvent</class>
+        <class>javax.servlet.AsyncListener</class>
+      </required-classes>
+      <debian available="false"/>
+      <redhat available="false"/>
+    </dependency>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
+      <artifactId>slf4j-api</artifactId>
+      <required-classes>
+        <class>org.slf4j.Logger</class>
+      </required-classes>
+      <debian criteria="&gt;= 1.5.10">libslf4j-java</debian>
+      <redhat available="false"/>
+    </dependency>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>org.mortbay.jetty</groupId>
+      <artifactId>jetty-util</artifactId>
+      <debian available="false"/>
+      <redhat available="false"/>
+    </dependency>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>javax.activation</groupId>
+      <artifactId>activation</artifactId>
+      <debian>libgnujav-java</debian>
+      <redhat available="false"/>
+    </dependency>
+  </mapping>
+  <!-- Excluding due to Geronimo Dependency Requirements -->
+  <project groupId="org.eclipse.jetty">
+    <exclude>jetty-annotations</exclude>
+    <exclude>jetty-jaspi</exclude>
+    <exclude>jetty-plus</exclude>
+  </project>
+  <!-- Dependencies for OSGI are too complicated to deal with right now -->
+  <project groupId="org.eclipse.jetty.osgi">
+    <exclude>jetty-osgi</exclude>
+    <exclude>jetty-osgi-boot</exclude>
+    <exclude>jetty-osgi-boot-jsp</exclude>
+    <exclude>jetty-osgi-boot-logback</exclude>
+    <exclude>jetty-osgi-boot-warurl</exclude>
+    <exclude>jetty-httpservice</exclude>
+  </project>
+  <!-- Aggregate Projects need not be built by linux-packaging -->
+  <project groupId="org.eclipse.jetty.aggregate">
+    <exclude>jetty-server</exclude>
+    <exclude>jetty-client</exclude>
+    <exclude>jetty-servlet</exclude>
+    <exclude>jetty-webapp</exclude>
+    <exclude>jetty-plus</exclude>
+    <exclude>jetty-all-server</exclude>
+    <exclude>jetty-all</exclude>
+  </project>
+</linux-packaging>
+