Activity log for bug #1716471

Date Who What changed Old value New value Message
2017-09-11 19:11:15 Robin Miller bug added bug
2017-09-11 19:13:17 Robin Miller description Tomcat 8.0.x is slated for EOL in June, and Debian's tomcat8 package has already been on Tomcat 8.5.x for a while (it's in both their stable release (stretch) and in backports for the previous stable release (jessie-backports)). Debian Stable package: https://packages.debian.org/stretch/tomcat8 Apache Tomcat 8.0 EOL statement: https://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-80-eol.html It seems like Ubuntu should be keeping up here and be including Tomcat 8.5.x in the upcoming release. Tomcat 8.0.x is slated for EOL in June, and Debian's tomcat8 packages have already been on Tomcat 8.5.x for a while (it's in both their stable release (stretch) and in backports for the previous stable release (jessie-backports)). Even the upcoming Ubuntu Artful tomcat8 package is still on version 8.0.38. It seems like Ubuntu should be keeping up here and be including Tomcat 8.5.x in the upcoming release. Debian package: https://packages.debian.org/stretch/tomcat8 Apache Tomcat 8.0 EOL statement: https://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-80-eol.html
2017-09-11 19:13:46 Robin Miller description Tomcat 8.0.x is slated for EOL in June, and Debian's tomcat8 packages have already been on Tomcat 8.5.x for a while (it's in both their stable release (stretch) and in backports for the previous stable release (jessie-backports)). Even the upcoming Ubuntu Artful tomcat8 package is still on version 8.0.38. It seems like Ubuntu should be keeping up here and be including Tomcat 8.5.x in the upcoming release. Debian package: https://packages.debian.org/stretch/tomcat8 Apache Tomcat 8.0 EOL statement: https://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-80-eol.html Tomcat 8.0.x is slated for EOL in June, and Debian's tomcat8 packages have already been on Tomcat 8.5.x for a while (it's in both their stable release (stretch) and in backports for the previous stable release (jessie-backports)). However, on the Ubuntu side, even the upcoming Ubuntu Artful tomcat8 package is still on version 8.0.38. It seems like Ubuntu should be keeping up here and be including Tomcat 8.5.x in the upcoming release. Debian package: https://packages.debian.org/stretch/tomcat8 Apache Tomcat 8.0 EOL statement: https://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-80-eol.html
2017-09-11 19:15:04 Robin Miller summary Ubuntu package version 8.0.x lags behind Debian Stable at 8.5.x Ubuntu package version 8.0.x in Artful lags behind Debian Stable at 8.5.x
2017-09-11 19:19:46 Robin Miller tags upgrade-software-version
2017-09-11 21:10:21 Nish Aravamudan marked as duplicate 1662654
2017-09-15 18:30:00 Hans Joachim Desserud bug added subscriber Hans Joachim Desserud