Bug#853173: Acknowledgement (tomcat8: Failed tomcat8 upgrade with exit status 128)

[Dave Sherohman]

I have now managed to get the updated package to install by renaming 
/etc/tomcat8 and /etc/default/tomcat8 so that the installer didn't see 
the previous configuration, but the installer did not then create new 
configs, which prevented tomcat from starting up.  (It failed with the 
error "tomcat8[39263]: Starting Tomcat servlet engine: tomcat8cat: 
/var/lib/tomcat8/conf/policy.d/*.policy: No such file or directory")

After restoring my old config files to their original names, I am now 
able to start tomcat and it appears to be working properly. Looks like 
the package has some problems in how it handles config files, though.