Path: csiph.com!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed7.news.xs4all.nl!bofh.it!news.nic.it!robomod From: Andrius Merkys Newsgroups: linux.debian.maint.java Subject: maven-*-helper JAR placement seems to contradict Java policy Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2021 11:50:02 +0200 Message-ID: X-Original-To: Debian Java List X-Mailbox-Line: From debian-java-request@lists.debian.org Fri Oct 15 09:42:12 2021 Old-Return-Path: X-Amavis-Spam-Status: No, score=-6.501 tagged_above=-10000 required=5.3 tests=[BAYES_00=-2, FREEMAIL_FORGED_FROMDOMAIN=0.25, FREEMAIL_FROM=0.001, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.249, LDO_WHITELIST=-5, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE=-0.0001, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_H2=-0.001] autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Policyd-Weight: using cached result; rate: -5.5 X-Gm-Message-State: AOAM531ly6DA2nLBdj9zeiWMl17zab6hW47aB5I6yWSv8ZNTvikreWZM wriSV9u4vWdZEJmtNI5C+xy/nCE8x6w= X-Google-SMTP-Source: ABdhPJw8NBl7pUcYCxW4HxgCC0q5om84/Y/9g5HQftCVNpBIH74WZ3GLrF4XSO5E6dGHCvS8QETptw== X-Received: by 2002:a05:6512:6d3:: with SMTP id u19mr10090672lff.106.1634290918401; Fri, 15 Oct 2021 02:41:58 -0700 (PDT) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.13.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/22932 List-ID: List-URL: List-Archive: https://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/4cb1dbe5-2f12-3fc3-efef-9c8b491fb3df@debian.org Approved: robomod@news.nic.it Lines: 27 Organization: linux.* mail to news gateway Sender: robomod@news.nic.it X-Original-Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2021 12:41:57 +0300 X-Original-Message-ID: <4cb1dbe5-2f12-3fc3-efef-9c8b491fb3df@debian.org> Xref: csiph.com linux.debian.maint.java:12303 Hello, Java policy on Java libraries (Ch. 2.4.) reads [1]: Their classes must be in jar archive(s) in the directory /usr/ share/java, with the name packagename[-extraname] -fullversion.jar. The extraname is optional and used internally within the package to separate the different jars provided by the package. The fullversion is the version of that jar file. In some cases that is not the same as the package version. Some package must also provide a symbolic link from packagename-extraname.jar to the most compatible version of the available packagename-extraname-version.jar files. However, it seems that packages built with maven-{debian,repo}-helper default settings contain the opposite: JAR archives are named packagename-extraname.jar, and packagename-extraname-version.jar are symbolic links to packagename-extraname.jar. For example see libcommons-lang3-java. This looks like a contradiction to me. Or am I just misreading the policy? [1] /usr/share/doc/java-policy/debian-java-policy.txt.gz, java-policy 0.57 Best, Andrius