[Bug 915089] Re: Tomcat 6 start up fails with unknown dir /var/lib/tomcat6/work

[Mike Amos]

The problem is not that relative directories are used. Use of relative
directories is correct and consistent with the standard. The problem is
that with the current Debian/Ubuntu/Natty installation of Tomcat6, the
links to the relative directory were broken. The workaround that I
provided in my 2012-01-11 comment correctly makes symbolic links to the
relative directories active. It neither makes the links hard links nor
moves the directories to an absolute location.

Without this change, Tomcat6 does did work. Why will you not fix the bad
links problem. Non-technical users will not have the ability to find and
repair the result of this incomplete installation and will not be able
to use packages dependent on Tomcat6.

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  Tomcat 6 start up fails with unknown dir /var/lib/tomcat6/work

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