Hi, the affected version here ( 8.5.16-1) belongs to Artful which reached EOSS (End of Standard Support) so I'm afraid it can't be fixed.
The bug was fixed in Debian for 8.5.38-2+rm version, and tomcat8 is present in Xenial with a lower version (8.0.32-1ubuntu1.13 ) (EOSS too) and in Bionic with a higher version (8.5.39-1ubuntu1~18.04.3) (so it's fixed for this). For this reason, I will mark the bug as "Won't fix". ** Changed in: tomcat8 (Ubuntu) Status: Triaged => Won't Fix -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1673016 Title: Tomcat7 post installation script does not honor dpkg-statsoverride entries To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/tomcat8/+bug/1673016/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs