Removal of www/jakarta-tomcat4 and www/jakarta-tomcat5
Ernst de Haan
ernst at ernstdehaan.com
Tue Jul 24 14:03:29 UTC 2007
Xin,
>> Is there any objection against removal of these ports:
>> www/jakarta-tomcat4
>> www/jakarta-tomcat5
>> They not only employ an old naming scheme (Tomcat no longer falls
>> under Jakarta), but they also seem to be outdated.
>
> Sounds reasonable to me. A simple grep over INDEX shows that
> extsm-1.0_1 (www/extsm) depends on jakarta-tomcat5, though, so we
> should take these into account.
Good thinking.
While doing some research I found that there are loads of security
issues with the 4.0.x port anyway:
http://tomcat.apache.org/security-4.html
So IMHO the 4.0.x port should be abandoned ASAP.
Ernst
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