Bug#769594: jenkins-tomcat: jenkins won't start, config option to make symlinks work seems broken with tomcat8

I found that https://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-8.0-doc/config/resources.html contained some useful documentation. In particular it states that: className Java class name of the implementation to use. This class must implement the org.apache.catalina.WebResourceRoot interface. If not

Bug#769594: jenkins-tomcat: jenkins won't start, config option to make symlinks work seems broken with tomcat8

Package: jenkins-tomcat Version: 1.565.3-2 Severity: grave Dear Maintainer, I did clean install of stable, updated to testing, installed jenkins-tomcat and related packages. When trying to start jenkins from tomcat manager screen I get: FAIL - Application at context path /jenkins could not be