On Tue, Aug 22, 2017 at 10:55 PM, Emmanuel Bourg <ebo...@apache.org> wrote:

> On 08/16/2017 09:24 AM, Leon Rosenberg wrote:
> > Debian has a long tradition of doing things in a very special way when it
> > comes to java. Long enough they shipped GnuJ as standard JVM with a
> debian
> > distribution, a piece of garbage that wasn't able to start simplest of
> java
> > programs.
>
> GCJ has been superseded by OpenJDK a loooong time ago as the default
> Java runtime on Debian.
>
> > But there has been an as long tradition to reply to every question about
> > tomcat behaviour on a specific distribution by suggesting to throw the
> crap
> > away and download the vanilla tomcat form the one and only legal source
> ;-)
> > (at least in the past, to which debian belongs).
>
> FWIW, there is now a Tomcat committer maintaining the Tomcat package in
> Debian and controlling its quality. If you think there is something
> crappy about the packaging feel free to send a mail to me or to the
> debian-j...@lists.debian.org and I'll be happy to help.
>

Thank you. Mea culpa. My information seems outdated.
Leon


>
> Emmanuel Bourg
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