----- Original Message -----
From: "Stephen Gallagher" <sgallagh(a)redhat.com>
To: tomcat-owner(a)fedoraproject.org
Cc: "Fedora Engineering Steering Committee"
<fesco(a)lists.fedoraproject.org>
Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2015 6:00:51 PM
Subject: Tomcat 8 In Fedora 22
Hello, maintainers of Tomcat. We have a bit of a problem.
Tomcat 8 landed in Rawhide and the Fedora 22 branch ten days ago and
brought with it some significant ABI changes, at least one of which[1]
has broken the Dogtag Certificate System (and by extension, FreeIPA
and the Fedora Server Domain Controller).
The bug seems to have workaround like removing single line. Has this been tested at all?
There are also numerous FTBFS of dependent packages in Rawhide[2].
Please let's have hard facts - these are all ftbfs for a group of packages. There is
no proof that all of them are because of tomcat change.
I have looked at the build failures and at least - ant-contrib, easymock, fop,
buildnumber-maven-plugin, javamail, keytool-maven-plugin, maven-clean-plugin, maven-doxia,
maven-invoker-plugin, maven-bundle-plugin, plexus-mail-sender, snakeyaml are failing for
other reasons unrelated to tomcat update. Having such statements (I would not call them
plain lies for now as it's 5/17 truth) is not helping anybody and is derailing
communication.
Alexander Kurtakov
Red Hat Eclipse team
Given the lateness of this major feature change, I would like to
request that the Tomcat maintainers revert this change and downgrade
to Tomcat 7 for Fedora 22. This way, we have a cycle in Rawhide to
deal with the fallout of the ABI changes.
I'm CCing FESCo so they are aware of this request.
[1]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1195811
[2]
http://koschei.cloud.fedoraproject.org/groups/maven?order_by=-state%2Cname