On 08/16/2017 09:24 AM, Leon Rosenberg wrote: > Debian has a long tradition of doing things in a very special way when it > comes to java. Long enough they shipped GnuJ as standard JVM with a debian > distribution, a piece of garbage that wasn't able to start simplest of java > programs.
GCJ has been superseded by OpenJDK a loooong time ago as the default Java runtime on Debian. > But there has been an as long tradition to reply to every question about > tomcat behaviour on a specific distribution by suggesting to throw the crap > away and download the vanilla tomcat form the one and only legal source ;-) > (at least in the past, to which debian belongs). FWIW, there is now a Tomcat committer maintaining the Tomcat package in Debian and controlling its quality. If you think there is something crappy about the packaging feel free to send a mail to me or to the debian-j...@lists.debian.org and I'll be happy to help. Emmanuel Bourg --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
