Re: ITP: temporary tomcat8-legacy
On 18.09.2017 10:43, Emmanuel Bourg wrote:
> Hi Timo,
>
> Le 18/09/2017 à 07:57, Timo Aaltonen a écrit :
>
>> Since 8.5.x broke tomcatjss & dogtag-pki (and thus freeipa) and it got
>> synced to Ubuntu too, I'm planning on packaging tomcat 8.0.x as a
>> temporary legacy package until these packages are ported over (might
>> take six months still).
>>
>> Are there any objections?
>
> No objection from me but I think this is a really a bad idea. Tomcat
> 8.0.x will be EOLed at the end of June 2018, upstream will thus drop
> security support 2 months after the release of the next Ubuntu LTS.
If upstream won't have tomcatjss/dogtag-pki ported by, say, March -18,
I'll drop all of these from Ubuntu so that 18.04 won't ship with it. But
having tomcat8.0 around allows me to work on the packages before
upstream has something newer.
> If you go this way I have a few suggestions:
> - Use tomcat8.0 as package name (for consistency with past Tomcat packages)
> - Don't build libservlet3.1-java (the one from src:tomcat8 can be reused)
> - If dogtag-pki only uses tomcat8-user (and its dependencies), don't
> build the tomcat8 binary to ensure nobody installs an obsolete daemon
> accidentally.
> - File a RC bug to prevent the migration to testing
Sure thing, thanks.
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t
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