Bug#522992: solr-tomcat5.5: breaks tomcat5.5 install

[Antoine Beaupre]

Package: solr-tomcat5.5
Version: 1.2.0+ds1-3
Severity: important

The solr package creates a broken link in the tomcat policy.d directory before postinst:

solr:/etc/solr# ls -l /etc/tomcat5.5/policy.d/05solr.policy
lrwxrwxrwx 1 tomcat55 adm 24 Apr  7 14:52 /etc/tomcat5.5/policy.d/05solr.policy -> ../../solr/tomcat.policy
solr:/etc/solr# ls    
conf  solr-tomcat5.5.xml.dpkg-new  tomcat.policy.dpkg-new  web.xml

This creates an error in tomcat configuration, which in turns breaks the solr install:

After this operation, 0B of additional disk space will be used.
Setting up tomcat5.5 (5.5.26-5) ...
Starting Tomcat servlet engine: tomcat5.5cat: /etc/tomcat5.5/policy.d/05solr.policy: No such file or directory
invoke-rc.d: initscript tomcat5.5, action "start" failed.
dpkg: error processing tomcat5.5 (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of solr-tomcat5.5:
 solr-tomcat5.5 depends on tomcat5.5 (>= 5.5.20); however:
  Package tomcat5.5 is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing solr-tomcat5.5 (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
 tomcat5.5
 solr-tomcat5.5

A simple workaround is to copy those .dpkg-new files in place and restart apt-get install.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable'), (2, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-6-vserver-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages solr-tomcat5.5 depends on:
ii  solr-common                  1.2.0+ds1-3 enterprise search server based on 
pn  tomcat5.5                    <none>      (no description available)

solr-tomcat5.5 recommends no packages.

solr-tomcat5.5 suggests no packages.

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