[Bug 1964881] [NEW] Logging/Log rotation does not work for catalina.out

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In Ubuntu 20.04, with `tomcat9-9.0.31-1ubuntu0.1` (latest) package, `logrotated` is not able to write to `/var/log/tomcat/catalina.out`
This could be fixed in a newer package but was not backported:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/tomcat9/+bug/1861881

In Ubuntu 22.04, with `tomcat9-9.0.58-1` (latest)  package, `logrotated`
is not able to rotate `/var/log/tomcat/catalina.out`

Because the `catalina.out` is created with `syslog:adm` ownerships.
`syslog` user does not have enough permissions to change this.

This causes following error:

rsyslogd: error during config processing: omfile: chown for file
'/var/log/tomcat9/catalina.out' failed: Operation not permitted
[v8.2112.0 try https://www.rsyslog.com/e/2207 ]

At the same time, the  `/etc/logrotate.d/tomcat9` has `su tomcat adm`
directive. Therefore the `logrotated` is not able to truncate the
`/var/log/tomcat/catalina.out`

This causes logrotate to copy the contents of `/var/log/tomcat/catalina.out` to as if it would be rotated. As `catalina.out` is never truncated, each rotated file ends up having the contents of `catalina.out` from the beginning of the tomcat installation. This causes the log sizes to keep increasing as no actual log rotation is being done.
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ProblemType: Bug
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu79
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: pass
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 22.04
InstallationDate: Installed on 2022-02-27 (18 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 22.04 LTS "Jammy Jellyfish" - Alpha amd64 (20220121)
Package: tomcat9 9.0.58-1
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.15.0-18.18-generic 5.15.12
RebootRequiredPkgs: Error: path contained symlinks.
Tags:  jammy
Uname: Linux 5.15.0-18-generic x86_64
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups: N/A
_MarkForUpload: True

** Affects: tomcat9 (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: apport-collected focal jammy
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Logging/Log rotation does not work for catalina.out
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1964881
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