Bug#355240: tomcat5: Recursive Tag files modification check causes StackOverflowError

[Alessandro Polverini]

Package: tomcat5
Version: 5.0.30-7
Severity: important

Current tomcat in debian has a bug that can crash tomcat.
Details are here:
http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=29887

I was bitten hard by that :(

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (90, 'testing'), (50, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.15-1-k7-smp
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages tomcat5 depends on:
ii  adduser                   3.63           Add and remove users and groups
ii  apache2-common            2.0.54-5       next generation, scalable, extenda
ii  apache2-utils [apache-uti 2.0.54-5       utility programs for webservers
ii  libtomcat5-java           5.0.30-7       Java Servlet engine -- core librar
ii  sun-j2sdk1.5 [java2-runti 1.5.0+update06 Java(TM) 2 SDK, Standard Edition, 

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