Re: Tomcat version for jessie

[Moritz Mühlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org>]

On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 04:37:41PM +0200, Salvatore Bonaccorso wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 02:16:13PM +0200, Emmanuel Bourg wrote:
> > Le 28/04/2014 13:22, Moritz Muehlenhoff a écrit :
> > > Hi,
> > > I noticed that tomcat8 was uploaded into sid. We still have tomcat6 and tomcat7 in
> > > jessie, can we remove these so that there's only one update that needs to be security-
> > > supported?
> > 
> > (cc-ing debian-java)
> > 
> > Hi Moritz,
> > 
> > There are several factors to consider:
> > * tomcat8 is still in beta but is likely to be declared stable for Jessie.
> 
> Would it make sense here to open a 'blocking bug' for tomcat8 to not
> let it enter testing until this stage is arrived? 
> 
> This is only a suggetion, to avoid that we do not ship a tomcat8 in
> testing.

Sounds good to me. Tomcat maintainers?

Cheers,
        Moritz