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From: Ernst de Haan <ernst@ernstdehaan.com>
Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2007 16:07:36 +0200
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Subject: Re: Removal of www/jakarta-tomcat4 and www/jakarta-tomcat5
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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 under Jakarta), but they also seem to be outdated.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