Re: Tomcat 9 removed from Debian 12

Hi Luis,

Le 03/05/2024 à 11:54, Luis Panadero Guardeño a écrit :
>
> 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 meme), because the javax.* to jakarta.* packages 
> problem. The changes needed to move a web application from javax to 
> jackarte aren't simple to do. Specially when *3rd party java 
> libraries, aren't migrated yet to jakarta packages* ( for example 
> Apache Commons Email ).
>
You don't have to migrate to the jakarta.* namespace yet, Tomcat 10 
supports both javax and jakarta webapps, just install the 
tomcat-jakartaee-migration package and drop your .war file to the 
webapps-javaee directory, the classes will be automatically converted, see:

https://tomcat.apache.org/migration-10.html#Specification_APIs


> I really hope that someone could reconsider to keep both Tomcat 9 and 
> Tomcat 10 on Debian 12. If some help it's needed to do this, I could 
> help (however I don't have idea how to do this).
>
This won't happen unfortunately, Tomcat is a security intensive package 
and we can really maintain efficiently only one version per Debian release.


> I choose Debian instead of keeping using Ubuntu server, because the 
> well know stability of Debian (plus I HATE Canonical weird things and 
> forcing snap on everything) and I don't expected this kind of changes 
> inside a stable version.
>
The javax->jakarta transition is annoying for everyone, but you should 
blame Oracle lawyers for this mess, the Debian Java Team is just 
following the trend.

Emmanuel Bourg