RFC: tomcat8 in the remaining jessie lifecycle

2018-06-29 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
I am working on tomcat8 to address the two currently outstanding CVEs. After I approached him for some guidance, Markus Koschany pointed out that upstream has made an [END OF LIFE] announcement for Tomcat 8.0. Support ends on 30th June. The patches for the two currently outsanding CVEs apply relat

Re: Guidance on tomcat8 update for (LTS) jessie

2018-06-29 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Wed, Jun 27, 2018 at 08:33:48AM -0400, Antoine Beaupré wrote: > > As an outsider not very familiar with Tomcat, I guess the main question > I would like to answer before figuring this out would be what kind of > compatibility garantees does Tomcat provide between versions. If it > respects semv

Re: mercurial new test packages

2018-06-29 Thread Chris Lamb
Antoine, > >> I am not sure why the test suite fails nor why the output varies from > >> one build to the next. Once a package is built, however, it passes the > >> test suite reliably. […] > Sure. I guess I see this from the perspective of "does the actual fix > work or not" as well. ;) Sorry to