Bug#1143583: tomcat11 complains about old Apache Tomcat Native library

[Santiago Ruano Rincón]

Hi, Emmanuel

I'm writing to you directly, since you've been probably the most active
uploader of tomcat-native recently.

El 05/08/26 a las 18:14, Santiago Ruano Rincón escribió:
> control: severity -1 important
> 
> Dear Java Maintainers,
> 
> (Actually, I think this bug(s) should be reassigned to tomcat-native)
> 
> A similar error to #1038204 happens with tomcat11 on trixie:
> 
>     04-Aug-2026 13:32:48.301 SEVERE [main]
>     org.apache.catalina.core.AprLifecycleListener.init An incompatible
>     version [1.3.1] of the Apache Tomcat Native library is installed, while
>     Tomcat requires at least version [1.3.4] of Tomcat Native 1.x
> 
> This is with:
> 
> ii  libtcnative-1:amd64 1.3.1-1+b1        amd64        Tomcat native library using the Apache Portable Runtime
> ii  tomcat11            11.0.22-1~deb13u1 all          Apache Tomcat 11 - Servlet and JSP engine
> 
> I'm planning to prepare a tomcat-native (1.3.x) update for trixie and
> bookworm.  Please, let me know if you have any objection to that.
> Latest upstream version is 1.3.8 (which was not packaged in unstable).
> Please let me know if you would prefer to have 1.3.7 instead, since it
> benefited from some exposure in testing.
> 
> I would also like to note that bullseye has 1.2.26+really1.3.7-1, and
> has this on the changelog:
> 
>     Backport 1.3.7 to bullseye in order to fix the compatibility issues with
>     Tomcat 9.
> 
> So, right now, there is a dist-upgrade regression from bullseye to
> bookworm.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
>  -- Santiago


I've prepared a tomcat-native 1.3.8 update for trixie, including a dep-8
test to try to identify the incompatibility with tomcat:
https://debusine.debian.net/debian/developers/work-request/1034536/

As a matter of comparison, this is the current version in trixie with
dep-8 test applied:
https://debusine.debian.net/debian/developers/work-request/1035211/

I've tested locally and I can confirm that both tomcat10 and tomcat11 on
trixie don't comply anymore with the proposed tomcat-native update.

I will create a couple of MR to fix related issues on unstable (e.g. #1137794).

Emmanuel, if you agree with the proposed approach. I would love to help
maintaining tomcat-native.  Would you agree adding me to the team so I
can do this as a team upload?

Thanks,

 -- Santiago
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