> On 12 Apr 2019, at 17:35, Thomas Mortagne <thomas.morta...@xwiki.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Apr 12, 2019 at 5:07 PM Vincent Massol <vinc...@massol.net> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>> On 12 Apr 2019, at 17:00, Thomas Mortagne <thomas.morta...@xwiki.com> 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/ServletContainerSupportStrategy/
>>> (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?
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/ServletContainerSupportStrategy/
>
> 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
>>
>
>
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> Thomas Mortagne
