The proper way to do this kind of permissions change in a way that persists future package upgrades is to override permissions through "dpkg-statoverride". The tomcat6 package is thought to honor such overrides properly, please reopen the bug if you still have issues when using the debian way to do what you want.
The proper way to do this kind of permissions change in a way that persists future package upgrades is to override permissions through "dpkg-statoverr ide". The tomcat6 package is thought to honor such overrides properly, please reopen the bug if you still have issues when using the debian way to do what you want.