On Fri, 2011-01-14 at 20:48 +0100, Guillaume ALAUX wrote: > Hi everyone, > > User servernyc (gmail) flagged extra/tomcat as out-of-date and asked: > "where is tomcat 6? any reason for 5.5 still?" > > I unflagged it as our tomcat package is currently from the 5.5 branch > and is up to date on its branch but still his question is relevant. I > think it is high time to make the move. Both branches 5.5 [0] and 6 [1] > are widely used and considered stable. > > (I am currently working on both tomcat 5.5 and tomcat 6.0 packages built > from source with dependencies extracted) > > So the feature request is "Update tomcat from 5.5 to 6.0". Has anyone > got something against it? > If no-one has, how to proceed regarding package names? > > - Rename "tomcat" to "tomcat5"? (careful because the 5.0 branch > existed [2]) > OR > - Rename "tomcat" to "tomcat5.5"? > > AND > - Use "tomcat" for 6.0 branch? > OR > - Create "tomcat6" for 6.0 branch? > > [0] http://tomcat.apache.org/download-55.cgi > [1] http://tomcat.apache.org/download-60.cgi > [2] http://archive.apache.org/dist/tomcat/tomcat-5/ > > -- > Guillaume
Forgot to link the bugtracker issue I opened in that intention: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/22424 -- Guillaume
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