On Fri, Apr 12, 2019 at 5:42 PM Vincent Massol <vinc...@massol.net> wrote: > > > > > 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?
No as I said there is a stable package, you just have to enable stable backports. There is also a testing version. > > 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 > >> > > > > > > -- > > Thomas Mortagne > -- Thomas Mortagne
