Dear Emmanuel, >> The bug depends on "Catalina" being writable; the permissions on >> "localhost" are irrelevant. > > The postinst script no longer runs chmod 755 on the localhost directory. > If I'm not mistaken this fixes the issue you reported. > > https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-java/tomcat8.git/commit/?id=02570d6 > > The script still chmods the Catalina directory but this one can't be > replaced by a symlink.
You are mistaken. Please re-read the original bug report. Cheers, Paul Paul Szabo p...@maths.usyd.edu.au http://www.maths.usyd.edu.au/u/psz/ School of Mathematics and Statistics University of Sydney Australia
