Bug#459934: tomcat5.5-admin: do not reenable on upgrade

Adrian Bridgett adrian at smop.co.uk
Wed Jan 9 19:42:16 UTC 2008


On Wed, Jan  9, 2008 at 16:56:01 +0000 (+0000), David Pashley wrote:
> On Jan 09, 2008 at 16:28, Adrian Bridgett praised the llamas by saying:
> > 
> > We remove the admin servlet (it is deprecated IIRC - I _think_ I
> > remember seeing due to security concerns) and just use the manager
> > servlet.
> > 
> I think the only way around this is to split each of the webapps into
> separate packages. 

That would certainly work. 

I was actually thinking more along the lines of the patch I submitted
for tomcat5.5-webapps - basically only install them on an install, not
on an upgrade.

I fully appreciate that this is wishlist at best though :)

Adrian
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