On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 11:02:41PM +0200, Emmanuel Bourg wrote:
>
> Tomcat updates are usually easy to package, the build system doesn't
> change, the code is stable and well tested (starting with tomcat7). If
> we could convince the release/security teams to upload full updates of
> tomcat{7,8} into stable instead of backporting the security patches this
> would greatly ease the maintenance of these packages.
We already have the precedent of shipping 6 and 7 versions in a stable
release, so maybe they can agree on that again if we can provide some
assurance that tomcat7 is going to be supported at upstream during
"jessie" lifecycle.
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