jetty REMOVED from testing

[Michael Koch]

On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 11:24:54PM +0200, Jan-Pascal van Best wrote:
> Debian testing watch wrote:
> > FYI: The status of the jetty source package
> > in Debian's testing distribution has changed.
> >
> >   Previous version: 5.1.14-1
> >   Current version:  (not in testing)
> >   Hint: (no removal hint found)
> >   
> There's probably a very good reason for this (I can personally think of
> a number), but is there a way to find out what they were?
> 
> And, could I have known in advance this was going to happen?
> 
> I'm asking because removing Jetty also caused Solr to be removed from
> Jetty: the solr source package build-depends on jetty, since one of its
> binary packages provides Jetty integration. If I had known in advance
> that Jetty was going to be removed from Lenny, I might have remove the
> Jetty integration binary package from solr, hopefully preventing its
> removal from Lenny.


Look at http://bugs.debian.org/jetty. There is an open security issue.
Upstream said its very hard to fix and nobody came up with a solution
yet. When this is fixed it can migrate into testing again.


Cheers,
Michael