tomcat6 unresponsive maintainer & deprecation

[Kevin Fenzi]

On Tue, 12 Mar 2013 13:49:22 +0100
Stanislav Ochotnicky <sochotnicky at redhat.com> wrote:

> Tomcat6 package in Fedora is old, has several problematic bugs
> (including 4 security) and most importantly there's a replacement:
> tomcat-7.x
> 
> I believe it is in our (developers as well as users) best interest to
> get rid of it. I have sent similar email to java-devel on February
> 26th[1], created another tomcat6 bugreport a week ago[2] but I wasn't
> successful in reaching David Knox (primary maintainer).
> 
> Note that we already had a bugreport to migrate packages to
> tomcat-7[3] and we almost succeeded, but then new packages started
> creeping in with dependency on tomcat6. We need to get rid of it ASAP
> or we'll be fighting neverending battle. Even as
> comaintainer/provenpackager I cannot deprecate package that I do not
> own.
> 
> I consider this point 4 of unresponsive maintainer process[4].
> However due to security issues, and package being effectively dead I
> wouldn't mind speeding up the process. I might try to bring this up
> with FESCO, but process doesn't seem to include any wiggle room there.

Feel free to file a fesco ticket and explain whats going on. 

kevin

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