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Re: Tomcat 10 packaging

From Thorsten Glaser <t.glaser@tarent.de>
Newsgroups linux.debian.maint.java
Subject Re: Tomcat 10 packaging
Date 2022-12-12 20:20 +0100
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On Mon, 12 Dec 2022, Emmanuel Bourg wrote:

> There is another benefit of a versionless package: backport continuity. When
> the tomcat<n+1> package replaces tomcat<n> in testing/unstable, it's no longer
> possible to update the tomcat<n> backport in stable (because the version must
> exist in testing). With a unique tomcat package we can keep updating the stable
> backport even after upgrading to a more recent release in testing.

Downside: no tomcat<n> update for stable users any more, they will be
forced to tomcat<n+1> prematurely.

It might be possible to get a backport exception and/or keep <n> in
testing until just before the release to ease this.

bye,
//mirabilos
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  Re: Tomcat 10 packaging Sebastiaan Couwenberg <sebastic@xs4all.nl> - 2022-09-28 18:40 +0200
  Re: Tomcat 10 packaging Markus Koschany <apo@debian.org> - 2022-09-29 15:10 +0200
    Re: Tomcat 10 packaging Emmanuel Bourg <ebourg@apache.org> - 2022-09-30 12:00 +0200
  Re: Tomcat 10 packaging Emmanuel Bourg <ebourg@apache.org> - 2022-12-12 14:20 +0100
    Re: Tomcat 10 packaging Thorsten Glaser <t.glaser@tarent.de> - 2022-12-12 20:20 +0100

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