Colin Watson wrote: > On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 08:41:51PM -0800, THUFIR HAWAT wrote: >> Attempts to disscuss the following topic: >> >> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.jakarta.tomcat.user/172013 >> >> have been rejected. >> >> The tomcat list directs this concern to the ubuntu list, which has in >> the past only offered the consensus advice of not to use the package >> manager. Hence the attempts to post to the devel list. > > tomcat6 seems to be the only version of Tomcat in Ubuntu main, and it > appears to have been quite extensively repackaged since tomcat5.5. The > ubuntu-server mailing list would be the best place to discuss this, I > think; Thierry Carrez and Mathias Gug have been working on it in Ubuntu. > It seems to address at least some of the concerns in the mailing list > post above, but I am nothing like an expert on it myself and can only > point you in the right direction.
Hello Thufir, My answer on the subject didn't vary much since last time I replied to you. Debian/Ubuntu Tomcat packages must rebuild from source and try to follow FHS rules, so they can't just unpack the upstream binary tarball in a single directory. For more details, please see my previous replies: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2009-January/027251.html https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2009-February/027326.html I cannot vouch for the tomcat5.5 package, but for the tomcat6 one I tried my best to follow FHS and still make sense in a Tomcat perspective (implementation of CATALINA_BASE/CATALINA_HOME as described in upstream RUNNING.txt). The Jaunty release improves that by removing a few extra useless directories. That said, I understand that upstream prefers you to reproduce problems with their unpacked binary tarball before filing bugs. Our deployment method can certainly introduce Ubuntu/Debian-specific bugs. Regards, -- Thierry Carrez Ubuntu server team -- ubuntu-server mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server More info: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam
