Hi Tony, On Sonntag, 23. November 2014, tony mancill wrote: > The cruft report for unstable will look *very* different due to 6.0.41-3 > being a *radically* different package. no, the report exactly looks like this *because* of this: > > * Build only the libservlet2.5-java and libservlet2.5-java-doc > > packages. [..] > The decision/requirement to remove tomcat6 from jessie has been > requested by the Security team for quite a while, and the 6.0.41-3 > source upload effectively does this by just building libservlet2.5-java > (without which we would have many packages with missing r-deps). what's missing now is a bug against ftp.debian.org asking for the removal of the binaries from sid, which are not build by the -3 anymore. *then*, -3 can migrate to jessie and those binaries will vanish "automagically". and the stuff in the cruft report breaks because of this. > I not sure I understand all of the ramifications of the statement I'm > about to make, but for the purposes of squeeze and wheezy, we need to > consider 6.0.41-2 as the last version of a "complete" tomcat6 source > package. yup, I will base the wheezy upload on this. cheers, Holger
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