Bug#895866: Bug 895866

[Alan Orth]

Dear Emmanuel, Tomcat 8.5.31 was released a few weeks ago. Have you had time to look at this since then? It seems there are quite a few people watching this bug now. Thanks.
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> On May 21, 2018, at 7:59 PM, Mirko Raner <mirko at raner.ws> wrote:
> 
> I'm a little surprised at the nonchalance here. In my mind, this is a pretty serious bug that will cause many people a good amount of headaches, myself included.
> Tomcat 8.5 does not intrinsically require Java 9, so, introducing a dependency by compiling it with Java 9 seems the wrong choice to begin with. And having a package declare a dependency on Java 8 when it really depends on Java 9 is a major bug; the package will install without errors but will not actually work.
> 
> Personally, I would like to see a higher priority on this bug. And I'm sure I will not be the only one who will appreciate this problem being fixed.

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