Bug#576873: tomcat6: Remove classloader directories shared/, common/ and server/

[Ludovic Claude]

Package: tomcat6
Version: 6.0.26-0ubuntu1~ppa1
Severity: wishlist

Suggestion from Jason Brittain (MuleSource):

I noticed that the way we have tomcat6 configured is to add
   back the classloader directories that were present in Tomcat
   versions 4 and 5: shared/, common/, and server/.  Stock Tomcat
   6 got rid of these as of 6.0.0.  Some software is still
   written for Tomcat 5.5, and docs may still refer to these
   classloading dirs..  I always found them helpful, since
   Tomcat's classloader hierarchy still has these three
   classloaders (server, common, and shared), but by default
   Tomcat 6 was always configured to just load everything from
   CATALINA_BASE/lib/.  Being informed about Tomcat, I can handle
   these dirs being present, but this will likely confuse some
   users because stock Tomcat 6 doesn't have them.  Looking
   forward to Tomcat 7, they're not being reintroduced, either.
   What do you think about eliminating these directories to make
   the Debian tomcat6 package more like stock Tomcat 6?

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers karmic-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'karmic-updates'), (500, 'karmic-security'), (500, 'karmic-backports'), (500, 'karmic')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.31-20-generic (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages tomcat6 depends on:
ii  adduser             3.110ubuntu7         add and remove users and groups
ii  tomcat6-common      6.0.26-0ubuntu1~ppa1 Servlet and JSP engine -- common f

Versions of packages tomcat6 recommends:
ii  authbind                     1.2.0build2 Allows non-root programs to bind()

Versions of packages tomcat6 suggests:
ii  tomcat6-admin       6.0.26-0ubuntu1~ppa1 Servlet and JSP engine -- admin we
ii  tomcat6-docs        6.0.26-0ubuntu1~ppa1 Servlet and JSP engine -- document
ii  tomcat6-examples    6.0.26-0ubuntu1~ppa1 Servlet and JSP engine -- example 
ii  tomcat6-user        6.0.26-0ubuntu1~ppa1 Servlet and JSP engine -- tools to

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