Additional MIR information for jakarta-taglibs-standard

[Availability]
Universe since 11.10

[Rationale]
Additional dependency for tomcat7 to support enablement of test suite during 
package build; also fixes issues in examples web application with missing 
dependencies.

[Security]
No outstanding CVE's

[Quality assurance]
Test suite not enabled due to missing testing dependencies (cactus).

[Dependencies]
No additional dependences other that those already provide in main or by the 
tomcat7 package.

[Background]
This package provides the Java Standard Tag Library implementation preferred by 
the Apache Tomcat project.  This is an extension on top of the Servlet, JSP and 
EL API's already provided by Tomcat.

** Description changed:

  [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 currently not executed.
+ Test suite enabled.
  
  [Dependencies]
  Require updating to switch to tomcat7 provided versions of servlet 
specifications (currently use libservlet2.5-java from tomcat6 source):
  Reverse-Build-Depends-Indep
  ===========================
  * excalibur-logkit
  * fop
  * libcommons-logging-java
  
  Reverse-Build-Depends
  =====================
  * axis
  * bsh
  * hessian
  * hsqldb
  * libmx4j-java
  * libreoffice
  
  No reverse-depends on tomcat7.
  
  Blueprint reference:
  https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/servercloud-q-tomcat7

** Changed in: jakarta-taglibs-standard (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided => High

** Changed in: jakarta-taglibs-standard (Ubuntu)
     Assignee: (unassigned) => James Page (james-page)

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  [MIR] tomcat7 (replaces tomcat6)

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