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Re: Tomcat 6 removal



On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 02:41:55PM +0200, Emmanuel Bourg wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I've just uploaded an update of the tomcat6 package that builds only the
> Servlet API (libservlet2.5-java) and no longer the server packages
> (tomcat6, libtomcat6-java, etc). So even if the src:tomcat6 package is
> still part of Jessie we won't have to support the security updates.
> 
> This change will break two packages:
> - libjboss-remoting-java: removal pending with jbossas4 (#764250)
> - tomcat-maven-plugin: no rdeps, low popcon. To be removed or upgraded
> to the version 2.x to fix the build failure.
> 
> All the other packages which were relying on tomcat6 have been updated
> to use tomcat7 or tomcat8.

Hi Emmanuel,

This is essentially an AOL/+1 from me, but sincerely, thank you for
accomplishing this.  Who knew servlet 2.5 would be so popular?  :)

Regards,
tony

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