Hello and thanks for reporting this issue.
>I was wondering why the dependency has been upgraded from
libtomcat6-java to libtomcat7-java.
I see that you have found bug 1286779 which contains more details about
the update in 14.04. The short version is that conflicts between tomcat6
and tomcat7 made it harder to install packages together. There seemed to
be a simple patch which changed the dependency so that was picked from
the later version and applied.
Unfortunately, I now see that it has caused a regression and I am of
course sorry about that.
I looked further into this, since newer versions of libjetty-extra-java
contain the same patch and found that the symlinks are also broken on
Ubuntu 15.10 and also Debian Sid. So this is actually affecting all
newer versions of the package. :(
I've forwarded the bug to Debian so hopefully the package maintainers
will take a look at this. One thing is of course the 14.04 update (which
of course is a shame), but the issue will need to be resolved in general
for newer versions. So I believe that once we have a solution for this
we can look at whether that should be applied to 14.04 as well, or
whether it should be rolled back to tomcat6 (which of course would re-
introduce the package conflicts.)
** Changed in: jetty (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Confirmed
** Tags added: trusty vivid wily
** Bug watch added: Debian Bug tracker #802716
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=802716
** Also affects: jetty (Debian) via
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=802716
Importance: Unknown
Status: Unknown
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Broken symlinks for JSP support in libjetty-extra-java version
6.1.26-1ubuntu1.1
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