On 16/01/20 19:03, Mark Hindley wrote:

>> I have initiated a devuanized version of the package here:
>>
>> https://git.devuan.org/amesser/tomcat9
>
> Great.

For the record, it looks like there's an ongoing effort to make tomcat9
work without systemd in Debian too, for buster:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=925473