Tomcat 5.5 needs commons-io and commons-fileupload

[Michael Koch]

On Sun, Dec 23, 2007 at 08:31:24PM +0200, Aviv Ben-Yosef wrote:
> Hello.
> Yesterday I installed tomcat-5.5 on my lenny box.
> When I tried to deploy a WAR using the tomcat-admin I received a nasty
> stack-trace about it not being able to find
> the DefferedInputStream class. Some googling led me to see that tomcat wants
> a version of commons-io that's older
> than the one available via apt-get. Downloading manually the two jars
> (commons-io and fileupload) of older versions
> and putting them in the right place made the thing work.

This could be related to #452366. A symlink to commons-io.jar was wrong.
I fixed this in our SVN for version 5.5.25-5


Cheers,
Michael