On Tue, 12 Mar 2013 13:49:22 +0100 Stanislav Ochotnicky <sochotnicky@xxxxxxxxxx> 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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