Newbie package maintainer

[Stephen Nelson <stephen@eccostudio.com>]

Hi,

I've been following the list for a while now, read quite a few of the
Debian java wiki pages and finally got started on a simple packaging
fix. I chose the tomcat6 project as it had a broken watch file. I
managed to fix that but when I try to re-build the package using:

dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc

I get:

no upstream tarball found at ...

I managed to get past that by manually running:

uscan --download-version 6.0.35 --force-download --rename --repack

However I'm now getting a general compilation problem:

/root/tomcat6/java/org/apache/jasper/compiler/JDTCompiler.java:86:
CompilationUnit is not abstract and does not override abstract method
ignoreOptionalProblems() in
org.eclipse.jdt.internal.compiler.env.ICompilationUnit

Obviously this package has been building successfully so it's
something wrong either with my setup or my lack of knowledge. What's
the best way to go about debugging this problem?

Thanks for any pointers you may have.

cheers,

Stephen