[arch-dev-public] Update tomcat from 5.5 to 6.0?

[Guillaume ALAUX]

On Fri, 2011-01-14 at 20:48 +0100, Guillaume ALAUX wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> User servernyc (gmail) flagged extra/tomcat as out-of-date and asked:
> "where is tomcat 6? any reason for 5.5 still?"
> 
> I unflagged it as our tomcat package is currently from the 5.5 branch
> and is up to date on its branch but still his question is relevant. I
> think it is high time to make the move. Both branches 5.5 [0] and 6 [1]
> are widely used and considered stable.
> 
> (I am currently working on both tomcat 5.5 and tomcat 6.0 packages built
> from source with dependencies extracted)
> 
> So the feature request is "Update tomcat from 5.5 to 6.0". Has anyone
> got something against it?
> If no-one has, how to proceed regarding package names?
> 
>   - Rename "tomcat" to "tomcat5"? (careful because the 5.0 branch
> existed [2])
>    OR
>   - Rename "tomcat" to "tomcat5.5"?
> 
> AND
>   - Use "tomcat" for 6.0 branch?
>    OR
>   - Create "tomcat6" for 6.0 branch?
> 
> [0] http://tomcat.apache.org/download-55.cgi
> [1] http://tomcat.apache.org/download-60.cgi
> [2] http://archive.apache.org/dist/tomcat/tomcat-5/
> 
> --
> Guillaume

Forgot to link the bugtracker issue I opened in that intention:
https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/22424
-- 
Guillaume
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