Tomcat 8.0.32 does not start with libraries compatible with Java 8 or older but compiled for Java 9

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better.

If someone can prepare a backport, please follow the steps at:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates#Procedure

All the steps documented there need to be followed. In particular:

1) Explain the bug well enough so the SRU team (who are probably not
familiar with this package) can understand the real user impact in terms of
use case so they can make a decision as to whether backporting the fix to
stable releases justifies the regression risk to existing, unaffected users.

2) Make sure that the fixing this in a stable Ubuntu release does not
regress existing users of the module not affected by this bug (e.g. other
architectures or ways of consuming this module).

3) Have a test case that can be followed by someone not familiar with the
package for SRU verification purposes.

Meanwhile, Guillaume Penin, could you provide the necessary steps to reproduce this issue? I am not familiar with Tomcat.

Thanks.

Hi,

I've asked the dev team for the most simple reproducer, that i will try to provide ASAP.

Please find the necessary commit applied on the 8.0.41 source tree : https://github.com/apache/tomcat80/commit/d491003658865af441a982c52dfaa1d2fa460d5f

Regards,

Hi,

Please find in attachment a relevant patch for the current Ubuntu Xenial Tomcat 8 source tree.

Regards,

Hi Guillaume,

Thanks for providing the patch and the pointer to the upstream commit, appreciated.

However, we would need to have some detailed steps on how to reproduce this issue in a Xenial system to move forward. Could you do that?

We have a process to release updates to stable releases, you can find more information here:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates

Hello,

Xenial has now reached the end of standard support. So marking this has "won't fix" for Xenial. Thanks!