Bug#291237: tomcat4-admin: admin context does not work because it has symlinked jar files

[Alessandro Polverini]

Package: tomcat4-admin
Version: 4.1.31-2
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable

The struts.jar in /usr/share/tomcat4/server/webapps/admin/WEB-INF/lib
directory is symlinked to the jar /usr/share/struts1.1/struts.jar of the
package libstruts1.1-java.

This makes the admin context not work because tomcat is unable to use
jar files symlinked to other locations.

The solution is to copy the real jar in WEB-INF/lib instead to use a
symlink.

Of course if it would be possible to tell tomcat to follow symbolic
links it would be much better, but I don't know if this is possible.

Alex

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (50, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.9-1-686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)

Versions of packages tomcat4-admin depends on:
ii  libstruts1.1-java             1.1-2      Java Framework for MVC web applica
ii  tomcat4                       4.1.31-2   Java Servlet 2.3 engine with JSP 1

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