Re: Tomcat 9 removed from Debian 12

Thanks! I would take a look.

A think that I found different when I made the effort to move from 
Ubuntu Server to Debian, was that on Debian not had removed the tomcat 
version. Ubuntu Server, had a "tomcatX" user/group that match the tomcat 
installed. Also, some old Ubuntu Server LTS had two versions of tomcat 
at same time on his repositories without issues (7 and 8.5).


El 3/5/24 a las 15:46, Thorsten Glaser escribió:
> Hola Luis,
>
>> I know that the remove tomcat9 packages was done on December of 2023 and that
>> this was decided a long time ago. But I think that nobody has stopped to
>> consider that you *cannot simply migrate from Tomcat 9 to 10 *(inserte here
> I have. I currently maintain the tomcat9 package externally,
> and I have users who use it for their customers so it’s used
> in production, with sysvinit instead of systemd, even.
>
> The packages are here:
> http://www.mirbsd.org/~tg/Debs/dists/bookworm/wtf/Pkgs/tomcat9/
>
> Don’t just install them from there, though, that would not
> be secured. Ideally, you’d use the Debian package “extrepo”
> to enable the “wtf-lts” repository, then pin it so that only
> the packages tomcat9{,-admin,-common,-docs,-examples,-user}
> and libtomcat9-{,embed-}java are considered from that repo.
>
> Alternatively,http://www.mirbsd.org/~tg/Debs/debidx.htm
> contains links to manual installation instructions, but you
> might still want to consider pinning as the repo contains
> other packages as well.
>
> Full disclosure, while I’m a Debian Developer and team member,
> Emmanuel has veto’d the changes to the tomcat9 package in the
> past (mostly on the grounds of using adduser… *sigh*). I also
> haven’t tested installing it together with tomcat10, and I
> personally don’t test on bookworm (but others do), only on
> bullseye and sometimes buster.
>
>> because the javax.* to jakarta.* packages problem
> Upstream Tomcat says they can convert that automatically,
> but I wouldn’t rely on just that because from experience
> I know that upgrading the Tomcat version is always a
> breaking change that needs changes to all applications.
>
> bye,
> //mirabilos
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