Bug#327132: tomcat5: Sun java5 available in Debian

[Alessandro Polverini]

On Wed, 2006-05-17 at 22:48 -0500, Barry Hawkins wrote:
> [...] Hello, now that sun-java5-jdk is available in Debian (also if in non-free)
> > it would be very nice to have tomcat 5.5.x packaged :)
> [...]
> Thanks for the update regarding the news about Sun Java 5 in non-free.
> We have always had access to the Sun Java 5 JDK via java-package, but its
> presence in non-free does not mean we would knock tomcat5 out of main in
> order to quickly bump up the version in our Tomcat packaging.  See section
> 2.12 of Debian Policy[0] for more information.
> 
> [0] - http://www.us.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-archive.html#s-sections

I understand, and thanks for the link to the documentation.

Would it be possible to have for example a tomcat55 package in non-free
then?

The problem is that tomcat5 is a bit outdated and very unmantained from
upstream (since many, many months).
For example we are unable to use some kind of features due to very old
bugs like the one reported here:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=355240

Rendering the package mostly useless (for us, at least).

Thanks,
Alex