Hi Tony, On Sonntag, 23. November 2014, tony mancill wrote: > The cruft report for unstable will look *very* different due to 6.0.41-3 > being a *radically* different package.
no, the report exactly looks like this *because* of this:
> > * Build only the libservlet2.5-java and libservlet2.5-java-doc
> > packages.
[..]
> The decision/requirement to remove tomcat6 from jessie has been
> requested by the Security team for quite a while, and the 6.0.41-3
> source upload effectively does this by just building libservlet2.5-java
> (without which we would have many packages with missing r-deps).
what's missing now is a bug against ftp.debian.org asking for the removal of
the binaries from sid, which are not build by the -3 anymore.
*then*, -3 can migrate to jessie and those binaries will vanish
"automagically".
and the stuff in the cruft report breaks because of this.
> I not sure I understand all of the ramifications of the statement I'm
> about to make, but for the purposes of squeeze and wheezy, we need to
> consider 6.0.41-2 as the last version of a "complete" tomcat6 source
> package.
yup, I will base the wheezy upload on this.
cheers,
Holger
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