[Bug 577683] Re: tomcat6 directory structure broken

[Rob Holman]

No,

I understand fine. What I'm saying is, the usual "It's the Debian way
and therefore better" reason is NOT compelling because it breaks Tomcat.
I say this because it doesn't work. I invite you to confirm it by doing
a fresh install of the tomcat-user package for instance-- on a fresh
slate. navigate to CATALINA_HOME/bin, set up a jdk and run
./startup.bin. Observe the output. Now try to deploy any serious Java
app with say, Netbeans. Take note of the result, a litany of errors
mostly created by permissions issues. Then try to deploy the same app
with a Tomcat tarball from Apache. Notice it works.

In layman's terms we call this "broken". It may be "standards
compliant", but is a standards-compliant distribution that doesn't work.
Googling this will reveal this distribution of Tomcat to be practically
world-famous for being broken. If it is simply a matter of
misunderstanding how this Tomcat distribution works, maybe someone can
let the folks at Apache know HOW it works...in real life, because when I
was in the midst of developing on it and ran into issues, their helpful
solution was to uninstall it and download theirs. That worked.

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tomcat6 directory structure broken
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/577683
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