First of all, sorry for the slow response.

>The "path" is: gradle -> libgradle-plugins-java -> libjetty-extra-java
-> libtomcat6-java

That is interesting, and I'm not sure how I missed it. What I did when 
investigating this bug was:
1) Comparing the control files. I looked at the control files listing all build 
and install dependencies for gradle which in 1.4-2ubuntu1 no longer mentioned 
tomcat. Thus, gradle was no longer directly depending on tomcat.
2) I checked on a virtual machine the list of packages which would be installed 
by "sudo apt-get install gradle" for this version where I didn't find tomcat 
mentioned at all. (Either I missed it, or it was already installed on the 
system, sorry about that.)

I am not quite sure how to proceed with this bug. As mentioned in 1)
gradle is no longer directly depending on tomcat. Though, due to the
dependency on libjetty-extra-java we still run into the same problem. So
any fix would likely need to be applied outside the gradle package. I
will look into whether this should be reopened, whether a new bug should
be filed against libjetty-extra-java or whether this should be marked as
affecting both.

(Btw. I recently found that libjetty-extra-java has a bug report on
migrating to tomcat7 in the Debian BTS, see http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-
bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=686876 for more info. In fact, it mentions gradle
as one of the packages it causes problems for.)

** Bug watch added: Debian Bug tracker #686876
   http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=686876

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