Re: [RFC] Drop tomcat5 from the archive (use tomcat5.5)
On Mon, Sep 18, 2006 at 06:15:12PM +0200, Arnaud Vandyck wrote:
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> Hi all,
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> I'd like to have your opinion about dropping tomcat5 from the archive
> and only use tomcat5.5.
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> Reason:
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> Tomcat5 is not developped actively upstream so it'll be hard to maintain
> if there are security issues.
I support this plan.
> Plan:
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> 1° List of packages that need tomcat5 and does not work or has
> not been tested with tomcat5.5
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> o [list your package here]
eclipse
jetty
lucene
jspwiki
libapache-mod-jk
libapache2-mod-jk
(from a quick 'apt-cache rdepends' search. no garantee for completeness)
> 2° Filing a serious bug report against tomcat5:
> [OBSOLETE] Please use and file bug reports against tomcat5.5
Before we do this all packages depending on any binary package built
from tomcat5 source package need to depend directly or indirectly on
tomcat5.5 instead.
> 3° Ask for a removal of tomcat5 from testing;
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> 4° Reassign, test and close bug reports from tomcat5 against
> tomcat5.5;
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> 5° Maximum test, bug reports and patch against tomcat5.5
>
> Thanks for your comments,
Good plan.
Cheers,
Michael
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