Bug#551091: tomcat6: not usable with eclipse

[arne]

Package: tomcat6
Version: 6.0.20-7
Severity: normal

it seems, debian's tomcat does not offer the same structure as a vanilla one -- thus eclipse wtp is unable to use debian's tomcat.

issues so far:
- no conf/ in /usr/share/tomcat6/. i created a link to /etc/tomcat6/
- no catalina.policy in /etc/tomcat6/ but instead /etc/tomcat6/policy.d/03catalina.policy

i don't really understand, why debian's tomcat has to differ so much from the standard one, making it hard to impossible for users to use it together with apps like eclipse expecting default file structures -- and since the incompatibilty with eclipse is a frequently recurring cause for bug reports i neither don't understand why that issue is never really addressed.

aqs long as debian decides to muddle up tomcat, it has to provide some kind of compatibilty layer for those expecting tomcat well known standards.

for the moment i am forced to fetch a tomcat archive from apache and use it instead which somehow defeats the purpose of using a package management.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-2-686 (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 tomcat6 depends on:
ii  adduser             3.111                add and remove users and groups
ii  jsvc                1.0.2~svn20061127-10 wrapper to launch Java application
ii  tomcat6-common      6.0.20-7             Servlet and JSP engine -- common f

tomcat6 recommends no packages.

Versions of packages tomcat6 suggests:
pn  tomcat6-admin                 <none>     (no description available)
pn  tomcat6-docs                  <none>     (no description available)
pn  tomcat6-examples              <none>     (no description available)

-- no debconf information