Re: Tomcat 6 removal
On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 08:33:38PM -0700, tony mancill wrote:
> On 10/23/2014 01:28 PM, Moritz Mühlenhoff wrote:
> > 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.
> >
> > Thanks, but wasn't the outcome of the discussion in April "Subject:
> > Tomcat version for jessie" to only ship tomcat8?
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Moritz
> >
>
> Hello Moritz,
>
> Yes, this was discussed at one point. However, there was some
> subsequent discussion about this during DebConf and as part of this
> thread [1]. The conclusion from the Java Team is that tomcat7 is the
> right choice for users given the relative newness of tomcat8 and that it
> is currently under development.
Ok, but then we should remove tomcat8 from testing, so that we don't have
two versions of Tomcat in stable again.
Cheers,
Moritz
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