Bug#845393: Pending fixes for bugs in the tomcat8 package

[Emmanuel Bourg]

Le 2/12/2016 à 00:32, Markus Koschany a écrit :

> Just my 2 cents about the "other" packages that install files into
> /etc/tomcat8/Catalina/localhost. In my opinion they should just symlink
> files into this path if at all. You mentioned jspwiki as one possible
> candidate in one of your earlier emails but this one has been broken for
> a long time now. It is probably easier to fix such issues in those
> packages and not in Tomcat itself.

You are absolutely right, I said files but the packages I was referring
to (jspwiki and solr-jetty) install a symlink and not a file.

I know these packages are broken/outdated, but they are the only
examples of how web applications are supposed to be packaged in Debian.

Emmanuel Bourg