Re: Tomcat 8 transition complete

[Timo Aaltonen <tjaalton@debian.org>]

On 06.11.2016 00:46, Emmanuel Bourg wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm pleased to announce that the transition to Tomcat 8 is now complete.
> The tomcat7 source package still exists but builds only the Servlet API
> 3.0. This version of the Servlet API is no longer used in sid, but I
> think it's a good idea to keep it a bit longer as a convenience for
> creating future packages.
> 
> The next task on the Tomcat front before the freeze will be to upgrade
> the package to the version 8.5. This update is important since it brings
> HTTP/2 support. I plan to tackle this update later this month.

8.5 broke tomcatjss and dogtag, and it doesn't look like upstream will
be able to fix them in about two weeks which is when uploads should
happen in time for stretch..

Any chance of tomcat8.0?



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