Bug#646921: Please only ship one JAR file

Florian Weimer fweimer at bfk.de
Fri Oct 28 11:59:39 UTC 2011


Package: asm3
Version: 3.3.2-1

Shipping multiple, different JAR files means that once you load multiple
ASM-using libraries, some of them are bound to use different JARs, and
the JVM will have to open all of them.  At best, this wastes resources,
at worse, compatibility problems result, depending on the order classes
are loaded in the JVM.  (Symlinks are fine, the JVM performs path
canonicalization.)

I don't think Debian needs to ship the subset JARs at all.

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