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
