Tomcat6 package in Fedora is old, has several problematic bugs (including 4 security) and most importantly there's a replacement: tomcat-7.x
I believe it is in our (developers as well as users) best interest to get rid of it. I have sent similar email to java-devel on February 26th[1], created another tomcat6 bugreport a week ago[2] but I wasn't successful in reaching David Knox (primary maintainer). Note that we already had a bugreport to migrate packages to tomcat-7[3] and we almost succeeded, but then new packages started creeping in with dependency on tomcat6. We need to get rid of it ASAP or we'll be fighting neverending battle. Even as comaintainer/provenpackager I cannot deprecate package that I do not own. I consider this point 4 of unresponsive maintainer process[4]. However due to security issues, and package being effectively dead I wouldn't mind speeding up the process. I might try to bring this up with FESCO, but process doesn't seem to include any wiggle room there. [1] http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/java-devel/2013-February/004698.html [2] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=918010 [3] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=819505 [4] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Package_maintainer_policy#What_to_do_if_a_maintainer_is_absent -- Stanislav Ochotnicky <sochotni...@redhat.com> Software Engineer - Developer Experience PGP: 7B087241 Red Hat Inc. http://www.redhat.com -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
