Package: tomcat9 Version: 9.0.16-4~bpo9+1 Severity: important The stretch backport of tomcat9 fails to install with the standard stretch version of systemd (232-25+deb9u11). It does work with the stretch backport of systemd (241-5~bpo9+1).
The errors look like this: Setting up tomcat9 (9.0.16-4~bpo9+1) ... [/usr/lib/sysusers.d/tomcat9.conf:7] Trailing garbage. Creating config file /etc/tomcat9/tomcat-users.xml with new version chown: invalid group: ‘root:tomcat’ dpkg: error processing package tomcat9 (--configure): subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1 -- System Information: Debian Release: 9.9 APT prefers oldstable-updates APT policy: (500, 'oldstable-updates'), (500, 'oldstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-9-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages tomcat9 depends on: ii lsb-base 9.20161125 ii systemd 232-25+deb9u11 ii tomcat9-common 9.0.16-4~bpo9+1 ii ucf 3.0036 Versions of packages tomcat9 recommends: ii libtcnative-1 1.2.21-1~bpo9+1 Versions of packages tomcat9 suggests: pn tomcat9-admin <none> pn tomcat9-docs <none> pn tomcat9-examples <none> pn tomcat9-user <none> -- no debconf information