[MIR] tomcat7 (replaces tomcat6)
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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jakarta-taglibs-standard (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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High
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Unassigned | ||
tomcat7 (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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High
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
[Availability]
Universe since 11.10
[Rationale]
Upgrade from tomcat6.
Supports newer Java specifications and has longer expected support lifetime.
[Security]
Upstream generally responsive to security issues in the past.
[Quality assurance]
Test suite enabled.
[Dependencies]
Require updating to switch to tomcat7 provided versions of servlet specifications (currently use libservlet2.5-java from tomcat6 source):
Reverse-
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* excalibur-logkit
* fop
* libcommons-
Reverse-
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* axis
* bsh
* hessian
* hsqldb
* libmx4j-java
* libreoffice
No reverse-depends on tomcat7.
Blueprint reference: https:/
description: | updated |
summary: |
- [MIR] tomcat7 + [MIR] tomcat7 (replaces tomcat6) |
description: | updated |
Changed in tomcat7 (Ubuntu): | |
importance: | Undecided → High |
description: | updated |
description: | updated |
Changed in jakarta-taglibs-standard (Ubuntu): | |
status: | New → In Progress |
Changed in tomcat7 (Ubuntu): | |
status: | In Progress → New |
Changed in jakarta-taglibs-standard (Ubuntu): | |
status: | In Progress → New |
assignee: | James Page (james-page) → nobody |
Changed in tomcat7 (Ubuntu): | |
assignee: | James Page (james-page) → nobody |
Changed in tomcat7 (Ubuntu): | |
assignee: | nobody → Jamie Strandboge (jdstrand) |
Changed in jakarta-taglibs-standard (Ubuntu): | |
assignee: | nobody → Jamie Strandboge (jdstrand) |
Changed in jakarta-taglibs-standard (Ubuntu): | |
milestone: | quantal-alpha-2 → quantal-alpha-3 |
Changed in tomcat7 (Ubuntu): | |
milestone: | quantal-alpha-2 → quantal-alpha-3 |
We've supported tomcat6 for a long time and there is no reason we shouldn't support tomcat7. ACK once tomcat6 is demoted.
Curious, does tomcat6 have the testsuite run during the build? If so, what would it take to get the tomcat7 testsuite running?