Bug#895866: tomcat8: Errors thrown when connecting to default HTTP connector (localhost:8080)

[Michael Welsh Duggan]

Emmanuel Bourg <ebourg at apache.org> writes:

> Le 18/04/2018 à 19:26, Michael Welsh Duggan a écrit :
>
>> Thanks.  This would be good, as a Debian system will use
>> /usr/lib/jre/default-java to run tomcat8 by default, and that symlink is
>> not one changed by the alternatives system.  As a result, this will not
>> run without changing JAVA_HOME in /etc/default/tomcat8.
>
> Note that the default JRE has already been switched to OpenJDK 9, so if
> you haven't changed JAVA_HOME in /etc/default/tomcat8 it should run fine.

Indeed.  I didn't notice because I have a package that depends on
default-jre 1.8 for some stupid reason.  Speaking of which, however, if
tomcat8 requires jre 9, it should probably depend on it. 

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Michael Welsh Duggan
(md5i at md5i.com)