Bug#782635: tomcat8-admin: Default upload limit for manager app too small with no way to override

[Dominic Hargreaves]

Package: tomcat8-admin
Version: 8.0.14-1
Severity: normal

Hi,

I found that the manager app file upload limit was too small for our
purposes.

As per [1] I've been unable to find a way to override the maximum file
upload size defined in web.xml without editing web.xml directly, which is
obviously the wrong thing to do. At the moment this feels like a bug
either in the packaging of tomcat8-admin or Tomcat itself, but it's
equally possible that the bug is in my understanding of how configuring
Tomcat is supposed to work, in which case any hints would be appreciated.

Cheers,
Dominic.

[1] <http://serverfault.com/questions/681211/overriding-parts-of-a-webapps-web-xml-in-tomcat-eg-manager-application-max-fil>