installation of tomcat6 removes eclipse

[Jeff Oliver]

Installing tomcat6 removed eclipse and eclipse dependancies. The removal seems to be caused by dependancies of tomcat6: tomcat6 requires tomcat6-common, which requires libtomcat6-java. It is this latter package (libtomcat6-java) which removes eclipse, eclipse-jdt, eclipse-pde, eclipse-platform, eclipse-platform-data, and libtomcat7-java. The last removed package (libtomcat7-java) makes sense, but removal of eclipse packages seems unwarranted.

Release: 12.10
Eclipse: 3.8.0~rc4-1ubuntu1

A brief summary of what happens:

sudo apt-get install tomcat6 tomcat6-admin tomcat6-common tomcat6-user tomcat6-docs tomcat6-examples

installs the packages plus libtomcat6-java and removes eclipse eclipse-jdt eclipse-pde eclipse-platform eclipse-platform-data

sudo apt-get install libtomcat6-java

installs the package and removes eclipse eclipse-jdt eclipse-pde eclipse-platform eclipse-platform-data

Perhaps related:

sudo apt-get remove libtomcat7-java

removes libtomcat7-java AND eclipse eclipse-jdt eclipse-pde eclipse-platform eclipse-platform-data

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
Package: eclipse 3.8.0~rc4-1ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-26.42-generic 3.5.7.6
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-26-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu10
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Apr 4 08:54:23 2013
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-03-20 (14 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Release amd64 (20121017.5)
MarkForUpload: True
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: eclipse
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
modified.conffile..etc.eclipse.ini: [modified]
mtime.conffile..etc.eclipse.ini: 2013-03-25T11:07:51.873644