On Thu, Jan 16, 2020 at 06:41:38PM +0100, Andreas Messer wrote:
> Hello everybody,
>
> currently the tomcat9 server package is not merged from Debian/buster
> to Devuan/beowulf. Probably since it does not ship with sysv initscript
> at all, it comes with systemd service file only

https://packages.debian.org/stable/tomcat9

There is a hard dependency on systemd, so amprolla won't merge it.

> I have initiated a devuanized version of the package here:
>
> https://git.devuan.org/amesser/tomcat9

Great.

> What do you think? Would it make sense to have this version included
> in beowulf? If so, it probably need to be integrated into the
> build/packaging for beowulf. I'm not up to date with this process
> in the current infra structure. I think, I have to release the version
> to the "unstable" branch of the repo before and the repo needs to
> be added to the buildserver somehow afterwards.

I think we should.

Any contrary views?

Mark