On Fri, Apr 12, 2019 at 5:42 PM Vincent Massol <[email protected]> wrote:
On 12 Apr 2019, at 17:35, Thomas Mortagne <[email protected]> wrote:
On Fri, Apr 12, 2019 at 5:07 PM Vincent Massol <[email protected]> wrote:
On 12 Apr 2019, at 17:00, Thomas Mortagne <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi devs,
tomcat9 package is now available in Debian repositories so I would like to start providing xwiki-tomcat9-* Debian packages of XWiki.
Nothing complex so far but it if we provide an official tomcat 9 oriented package it would also make more sense to add Tomcat 9 in https://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Community/SupportStrategy/ServletContai... (only Tomcat 8 right now).
Another argument is that it's the current recommended stable version from Tomcat point of view so people will use it more and more.
WDYT ?
In principle it’s good but it means doing a lot more tests to officially support it and we’re already doing a lot. So I’m not very inclined to add new config tests. It adds a lot of hours to the build. I’d prefer that we keep officially supporting only a single version if we can. Same as for jetty for ex.
BTW could you provide the URLs for the various debian repos (oldstable, stable, unstable) so that we can check the precise Tomcat versions?
https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=tomcat9 so 9.0.16. It's available in the stable branch trough backport repository (stable branch never get new major version directly).
So it seems there’s only an “unstable” version FTM. I would wait till there’s a “stable” version at least. We could add it to our “unsupported” docker tests that execute once a month though. WDYT?
No as I said there is a stable package, you just have to enable stable backports. There is also a testing version.
What’s your need for adding support for it now, since debian doesn’t have a stable support for it yet?
BTW I also noticed that https://packages.debian.org/sid/tomcat8 doesn’t exist anymore. It’s been removed? This link is in our doc at https://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Community/SupportStrategy/ServletContai...
This is the URL for sid only which is the unstable branch. Not really sure if it's like this on purpose or if it's a mistake but it will continue to be available for a very long time in the stable branch for sure anyway. On Tomcat side there is no date announced for 8.5.x end of life.
This link used to work so it’s been removed. Not sure what we should do.
Thanks -Vincent
Thanks -Vincent
Here is my +1 -- Thomas Mortagne
-- Thomas Mortagne
-- Thomas Mortagne