Bug#646921: Please only ship one JAR file

[Florian Weimer]

* Torsten Werner:

> On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 1:59 PM, Florian Weimer <fweimer at bfk.de> wrote:
>> 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.
>
> upstream packages sometimes directly reference the individual jars.

I'm surprised that the Class-Path manifest attribute is used outside
Debian.

> It would be too much work to maintain patches for all them.

The old solution with symlinks to the "all" JAR seemed a pretty
reasonable compromise.

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