On 06/02/2014 10:17 AM, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote: > On Sun, Jun 01, 2014 at 01:23:01PM -0700, tony mancill wrote: >> In addition to libservlet2.5-java, I think we should have some sense of >> how tomcat6 and tomcat7 users will be affected by having tomcat8-only >> available in jessie. That is, are there incompatibilities or changes in >> behavior people need to be aware of? Do we need to provide a migration >> script of some sort? We already know about the username differences - >> are there others? >> >> I don't like to merely pose the questions, but am not regularly running >> tomcat in production anymore, and so don't have ready answers. I don't >> want users to feel like they're stranded with their existing tomcat6/7 >> installations. > > There are migration guides: > http://tomcat.apache.org/migration-7.html > http://tomcat.apache.org/migration-8.html > > I think pointing to these in README.Debian or similar is sufficient, > after all such migrations happen for a lot of components in Debian > and if anyone would install Tomcat from source she would face the > same migration problems.
Good idea. Thank you for the suggestion. I'll get these updated in README.Debian with the next upload of tomcat8. Thank you, tony
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