[Pkg-freeipa-devel] Bug#1031816: Bug#1034824: tomcat9 should not be released with Bookworm

[Adrian Bunk]

On Tue, May 16, 2023 at 05:28:11PM +0300, Timo Aaltonen wrote:
> Timo Aaltonen kirjoitti 16.5.2023 klo 10.12:
> > Markus Koschany kirjoitti 13.5.2023 klo 23.38:
> > > Hi Salvatore,
> > > 
> > > adding Timo Aaltonen, maintainer of dogtag-pki and tomcatjss, to CC
> > > 
> > > Am Samstag, dem 13.05.2023 um 20:50 +0200 schrieb Salvatore Bonaccorso:
> > > > Hi Markus,
> > > > 
> > > > On Sat, May 13, 2023 at 06:27:49PM +0200, Markus Koschany wrote:
> > > > > I have just pushed the necessary changes to our Git repository.
> > > > > 
> > > > > https://salsa.debian.org/java-team/tomcat9/-/commit/adbd0b0711de66b67278b10e258c47c805e9b993
> > > > 
> > > > Do we need to have done more here? When Paul asked on #debian-release
> > > > I noted that pki-server depends on tomcat9-user, so reducing
> > > > libtomcat9-java only would now cause a broken dpeends for pki-server:
> > > > 
> > > > $ dak rm --suite=bookworm -n -R -b tomcat9-user
> > > > Will remove the following packages from bookworm:
> > > > 
> > > > tomcat9-user |   9.0.70-1 | all
> > > 
> > > We could simply replace tomcat9-user with tomcat10-user because it
> > > only ships a
> > > script to create a standalone tomcat instance. We have to do
> > > s/tomcat9/tomcat10/ in some debian service files as well.
> > > 
> > > The question is: If we ship libtomcat9-java in Bookworm and change the
> > > dependency from tomcat9-user to tomcat10-user, will a web
> > > application like
> > > dogtag-pki, which is designed for Tomcat 9, continue to work with
> > > Tomcat 10? I
> > > don't know yet and maybe Timo can chime in here.
> > 
> > I don't know, dogtag uses the skel files from tomcat9-user, but I diffed
> > them between tomcat9 and 10 and couldn't see why it would regress.
> 
> Had a closer look at dogtag, and it's launching the tomcat instance from
> CATALINA_HOME, so it's a one-way ticket to migrate an installed instance to
> use tomcat10 in the configuration, so I don't think moving to tomcat10-user
> would fly..

Does that mean the two bugs (in tomcat9 and tomcatjss) should be tagged 
"trixie sid" to no longer affect and bookworm will ship with two versions
of tomcat, or what else is now supposed to happen?

cu
Adrian