tomcat6-user 6.0.24 with confluence deadlocks

[Taneli Mäenpää]

Binary package hint: tomcat6-user

Confluence version 3.5 crashes occasionally when using lucid 10.04 latest tomcat6-user -package.

http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFKB/Confluence+Deadlocks+when+Running+under+Tomcat+6.0.24

Description: Ubuntu 10.04.2 LTS
Release: 10.04

tomcat6-user:
  Installed: 6.0.24-2ubuntu1.7
  Candidate: 6.0.24-2ubuntu1.7
  Version table:
 *** 6.0.24-2ubuntu1.7 0
        500 http://fi.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-updates/main Packages
        500 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-security/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     6.0.24-2ubuntu1 0
        500 http://fi.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid/main Packages

[Thierry Carrez (ttx)]

Fixed in 6.0.27 with http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=941868 - not exactly sure it can be directly backported to 6.0.24.

[Thierry Carrez (ttx)]

Maverick+ ship with 6.0.28+, so this is fixed there. Nominating for Lucid.

[Joonas Koivunen (joonas-koivunen)]

Why should the LTS follow with non-latest stable tomcat? With the release of ga tomcat 7 it's safe to assume that tomcat6 has reached maintenance-only mode.

The changelog from 6.0.28 to 6.0.32 is big, but changes are not breaking; some more enableable features, mostly conformance fixes or bugfixes preventing memory leaks.

To keep looking forward to year 2015 (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LTS) and the java server applications; it might be good to expect that especially open source products will keep working with the tomcat6, specifically the latest stable, not an "almost stable" version.

If the latest-maintenance-mode stable strategy is unacceptable, then providing the latest stable in backports should be?

I do not think that maintaining a backport-branch starting from 6.0.24 should be considered at all.

[Thierry Carrez (ttx)]

Ubuntu's policy for Stable Release Updates is about fixing specific major issues or security vulnerabilities with a minimal patch to reduce the risk of regression on running machines, and QA the minimal change extensively. A known issue is better than an unknown regression :

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates

[Joonas Koivunen (joonas-koivunen)]

> A known issue is better than an unknown regression

Hmm ok; understood and agreed; so a bug like this should be filed for any known issues in the future and a backport request for others.

My point came from the fact that tomcat6 is widely used as is and embedded in commericial products as well, but I'm not arguing any more as the StableReleaseUpdates lines the clear rules.

[Rolf Leggewie (r0lf)]

lucid has seen the end of its life and is no longer receiving any updates. Marking the lucid task for this ticket as "Won't Fix".