tomcat6 unresponsive maintainer & deprecation

[devzero2000]

On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 4:28 PM, Stanislav Ochotnicky <
sochotnicky at redhat.com> wrote:

> Quoting Kevin Fenzi (2013-03-12 15:53:56)
> > 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.
> Thanks, filed https://fedorahosted.org/fesco/ticket/1094
>
> I believe the emails/bugzilla provides enough context but I'll also try to
> attend
> the FESCO meeting to answer any questions.
>

I have received this today
http://www.exploitthis.com/2013/03/rhsa-20130623-1-important-tomcat6-security-update.html
.

Dunno if useful.

Best




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