Bug#925473: tomcat9: sysvinit script missing

[Thorsten Glaser]

Ondrej Zary dixit:

>Hello, why tomcat9 still does not have an init script despite it has
>been posted here?
>
>I'm upgrading a Stretch server without systemd to Buster. Tomcat 9 is
>installed but cannot be started without an init script.

Mostly because Emmanuel insists on using systemd’s abstraction to
create the user account, despite a working, tested, alternative I
offered to maintain and be responsible for exists.

The “sysvinit” branch contains a working version of the package
which I update from time to time. I’m also publishing builds of
that here:

http://www.mirbsd.org/~tg/Debs/dists/bullseye/lts/Pkgs/tomcat9/

This is the “wtf-lts” repo on Wouter’s extrepodata.

The package contains the init script, the user management logic
that actually works across *all* *supported* Debian configurations
instead of just an *arbitrary* subset of those, and some instructions
for nōn-systemd users in logging.properties (the default logging is
configured for systemd) and README.Debian (specifically noting that
some of the applied hardening is systemd-specific, but compared to
stretch/sysvinit you’re not worse off, security-wise, so…).

I have no idea why Emmanuel, the primary maintainer, has been set
so strongly against merging this patch for as long as I promise to
take care of it and deal with any related fallout (maybe some systemd
fan paid him) but this is what is, and that GR outcome is interpreted
as Emmanuel being able to block this indefinitely despite nōn-systemd
continuing to be a supported way of running Debian (albeit not without
UsrMove in bookworm/sid).

bye,
//mirabilos
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