Package: tomcat5.5 Version: 5.5.20-4 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable
The installation of tomcat5.5 uses relative symlinks in many places including in the directories under CATALINA_BASE. Example: conf logs -> ../../log/tomcat5.5 shared temp webapps work -> ../../cache/tomcat5.5 This assumes that CATALINA_BASE is always going to be set to /var/lib/tomcat5.5 If a users such as myself makes CATALINA_BASE some other directory like /srv/tomcat5.5, any upgrade of the product will delete the symlinks and replace them with the relative links above... breaking the tomcat installation. tomcat5.5 SHOULD NOT assume that a user-modifiable parameter is going to be at a set location every time. I believe that tomcat5.5 CAN assume that certain configuration items are going to be in their correct "debian" places, and should always use fully qualified symlinks. So, logs should point to /var/log/tomcat5.5 work should point to /var/cache/tomcat5.5 and the other links in the installtion (there are some in the conf directories that intend to point to /etc/tomcat5.5) should be corrected as well. As it stands, there is no way to upgrade the installtion of tomcat5.5 if the user chooses a different CATALINA_BASE --Mike -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.18 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages tomcat5.5 depends on: ii adduser 3.102 Add and remove users and groups ii ecj-bootstrap 3.2.1-6 standalone version of the Eclipse ii gij [java2-runtime] 4:4.1.1-15 The GNU Java bytecode interpreter ii gij-4.1 [java2-runti 4.1.1-20 The GNU Java bytecode interpreter ii ibm-j2sdk1.5 [java2- 1.5.0 Java(TM) JDK, Standard Edition, IB ii java-gcj-compat-dev 1.0.65-10 Java runtime environment with GCJ ii jsvc 1.0.2~svn20061127-4 wrapper to launch Java application ii libtomcat5.5-java 5.5.20-4 Java Servlet engine -- core librar ii sun-java5-jre [java2 1.5.0-11-1 Sun Java(TM) Runtime Environment ( tomcat5.5 recommends no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]