tomcat6 hasn't been updated in a long time (since June 2012), it has several security bugs which should be addressed etc. With introduction of automatic requires in Java land it's also causing some FTBFSs (mixing of tomcat-7.x and tomcat6 artifacts). Migration of tomcat6 packages is mostly trivial.
As noted in devel ML[1] I would like to possibly speed up the orphaning process in rawhide. I am in contact with few more people interested in tomcat6 in older Fedoras and if David doesn't get back soon(ish), we'll do the updates in F17/F18. But tomcat6 in rawhide should go buh-bye ASAP.
[1] http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2013-March/179847.html
The package should be orphaned long time ago.
+1 from me, I won't attend the meeting
Tomcat6 package has costed way too much invaluable time to people taking care of the Java stack while being unmaintained for such a long time that killing it immediately would be too slow :).
I managed to contact David. Situation is not ideal, but we've waited long enough so my proposal:
Both points have deadline before next FESCO meeting (March 20th). I'll try to coordinate with David wrt security patches so they can be sent out ASAP (by end of the week ideally).
Can't attend the meeting unfortunately, but I'll read the log and reply to discussion here if needed.
From 2013-03-13 FESCo meeting - agreed to wait one week and revisit.
So a summary of last week:
From my POV this ticket can be closed, but I'll leave that up to you
[1] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/search/tomcat6
Excellent. Thanks for bringing things to a good conclusion.
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