Bug#536328: tomcat5.5: permission rights changed

[Ralf Hauser]

Package: tomcat5.5
Version: 5.5.26-5
Severity: important


We use tomcat out eclipse with the sysdeo plugin. This doesn't use the
/etc/init.d 
script and since eclipse is neither run as root nor user "tomcat55" some
changes 
on the permission-rights were necessary.

When upgrading from etch to lenny, but also when upgrading the tomcat
version as they get released by debian.
all those settings are overwritten (due to the sym-linking, quite some
directories stay the same).

One improvement opportunity is certainly on the tomcat side as per 
https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=47495, but when upgrading
with apt-get, debian also
should offer to preserve the rights given or suggest an alternate approach
how to run tomcat in eclipse
on a developer workstation!

-- System Informations:
Debian Release: 5.0.2
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages tomcat5.5 depends on:
ii  adduser              3.110               add and remove users and groups
ii  gij [java2-runtime-h 4:4.3.2-2           The GNU Java bytecode
interpreter
ii  gij-4.1 [java2-runti 4.1.1-20            The GNU Java bytecode
interpreter
ii  gij-4.3 [java2-runti 4.3.2-2             The GNU Java bytecode
interpreter
ii  java-gcj-compat [jav 1.0.78-2            Java runtime environment using
GIJ
ii  java-gcj-compat-head 1.0.78-2            Java runtime environment using
GIJ
ii  jsvc                 1.0.2~svn20061127-9 wrapper to launch Java
application
ii  libecj-java          3.3.0+0728-9        Eclipse Java compiler (library)
ii  libtomcat5.5-java    5.5.26-5            Java Servlet engine -- core
librar
ii  sun-java5-jre [java2 1.5.0-17-0.1        Sun Java(TM) Runtime
Environment (

tomcat5.5 recommends no packages.

Versions of packages tomcat5.5 suggests:
ii  gij [java-virtual-machine]  4:4.3.2-2    The GNU Java bytecode
interpreter
ii  gij-4.1 [java-virtual-machi 4.1.1-20     The GNU Java bytecode
interpreter
ii  gij-4.3 [java-virtual-machi 4.3.2-2      The GNU Java bytecode
interpreter
ii  java-gcj-compat [java-virtu 1.0.78-2     Java runtime environment using
GIJ
ii  java-gcj-compat-headless [j 1.0.78-2     Java runtime environment using
GIJ
pn  libapache2-mod-jk           <none>       (no description available)
ii  sun-java5-jre [java-virtual 1.5.0-17-0.1 Sun Java(TM) Runtime
Environment (
pn  tomcat5.5-admin             <none>       (no description available)
pn  tomcat5.5-webapps           <none>       (no description available)

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