Tomcat5.5 packaging

[David Pashley]

I have a couple of questions regarding the tomcat5.5 packaging. I
thought I'd ask here before raising bugs.

The first is why the majority of the config files are not in
/etc/tomcat5.5. I would have expected /usr/share/tomcat5.5/conf to be a
symlink to /etc/tomcat5.5, rather than the current scheme where it is a
symlink to /var/lib/tomcat5.5/conf and then server.xml and web.xml are
symlinks to files in /etc/tomcat5.5. This means that files like
tomcat-users.xml aren't in /etc/tomcat5.5. Also, these files aren't
under conffiles protection, so if a user makes changes to these files,
the next time they upgrade, they will lose these changes.

The second question is why the native code part isn't built as an
optional package.

I would be happy to work on fixing both of these point if there is no
reason not to change them.

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David Pashley
dpashley at digitalbrain.com