Comment 3 for bug 294277

The way the Catalina directory is handled should be modified. It should be provided by the tomcat6 package and (if we want autodeployment to work correctly) be writeable by tomcat6. What still needs to be discussed for the second part of the implementation is if we want to accept that security/feature trade-off, and the location of the Catalina directory (in /etc or retrolinked to /var/lib/tomcat6/something).

As a workaround, sudo apt-get install tomcat6-docs to get the Catalina directory installed and sudo chown -R tomcat6 /etc/tomcat6/Catalina to make it writeable.