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Re: maven-*-helper JAR placement seems to contradict Java policy

From	Andrius Merkys <merkys@debian.org>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.maint.java, linux.debian.bugs.dist
Subject	Re: maven-*-helper JAR placement seems to contradict Java policy
Date	2022-03-28 18:20 +0200
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Hi Alexandre,

On 2022-03-23 16:33, Alexandre Rossi wrote:
> Seems to work:
> 
>   $ ls -la /usr/share/java/htmlcleaner*
>   lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     15 18 mars  18:20 /usr/share/java/htmlcleaner-2.26.jar -> htmlcleaner.jar
>   -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 176219 18 mars  18:20 /usr/share/java/htmlcleaner.jar
>   $ sudo dpkg -i oss/debian/davmail/libhtmlcleaner-java_2.26-1+fix+bad+jar+name+1_all.deb
>   [...]
>   $ ls -la /usr/share/java/htmlcleaner*
>   -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 176219 23 mars  15:27 /usr/share/java/htmlcleaner-2.26.jar
>   lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     20 23 mars  15:27 /usr/share/java/htmlcleaner.jar -> htmlcleaner-2.26.jar

Many thanks for the proposed patch. It seems we need a decision now on
which one is actually buggy: maven-debian-helper or java-policy. I would
vote for upholding the java-policy if only the symlink placement switch
does not break anything (neither reverse dependencies not the update
mechanism). Having versionless symlinks parallels nicely lib*-dev shlib
scheme and there might be situations where this is beneficial for Java
too. Unluckily enough, there are >700 source packages now directly
affected by this [1].

[1] https://lintian.debian.org/tags/bad-jar-name

Best,
Andrius

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maven-*-helper JAR placement seems to contradict Java policy Andrius Merkys <merkys@debian.org> - 2021-10-15 11:50 +0200
  Re: maven-*-helper JAR placement seems to contradict Java policy Markus Koschany <apo@debian.org> - 2021-10-15 13:40 +0200
    Re: maven-*-helper JAR placement seems to contradict Java policy Andrius Merkys <merkys@debian.org> - 2021-10-15 15:30 +0200
      Re: maven-*-helper JAR placement seems to contradict Java policy Emmanuel Bourg <ebourg@apache.org> - 2021-10-17 16:00 +0200
        Re: maven-*-helper JAR placement seems to contradict Java policy Alexandre Rossi <niol@zincube.net> - 2021-10-18 09:40 +0200
          Re: maven-*-helper JAR placement seems to contradict Java policy Andrius Merkys <merkys@debian.org> - 2021-10-18 09:40 +0200
            Re: maven-*-helper JAR placement seems to contradict Java policy Alexandre Rossi <niol@zincube.net> - 2022-03-23 08:50 +0100
              Re: maven-*-helper JAR placement seems to contradict Java policy Emmanuel Bourg <ebourg@apache.org> - 2022-03-23 10:10 +0100
                Re: maven-*-helper JAR placement seems to contradict Java policy Thorsten Glaser <t.glaser@tarent.de> - 2022-03-23 15:20 +0100
                Re: maven-*-helper JAR placement seems to contradict Java policy Alexandre Rossi <niol@zincube.net> - 2022-03-23 15:40 +0100
                Re: maven-*-helper JAR placement seems to contradict Java policy Andrius Merkys <merkys@debian.org> - 2022-03-28 18:20 +0200
                Bug#1007923: maven-*-helper JAR placement seems to contradict Java policy tony mancill <tmancill@debian.org> - 2022-03-29 06:10 +0200
                Bug#1007923: maven-*-helper JAR placement seems to contradict Java policy Markus Koschany <apo@debian.org> - 2022-03-29 12:10 +0200
                Bug#1007923: maven-*-helper JAR placement seems to contradict Java policy Pierre Gruet <pgt@debian.org> - 2022-03-29 16:50 +0200

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