Bug#326207: Twofold MANIFEST.MF in saxon.jar

Reinhard Vicinus rvicinus at rjm.de
Fri Sep 2 12:21:52 UTC 2005


Package: libsaxon-java
Version: 6.5.4-1

When I invoke the Saxon XSLT Processor an error occurs.

$ java -jar /usr/share/java/saxon-6.5.4.jar
Failed to load Main-Class manifest attribute from
/usr/share/java/saxon-6.5.4.jar

I think the java processor gets confused because there are two MANIFEST.MF
in the jar-file:
$ unzip -l /usr/share/java/saxon-6.5.4.jar
Archive:  /usr/share/java/saxon-6.5.4.jar
  Length     Date   Time    Name
 --------    ----   ----    ----
    54843  08-17-05 01:53   META-INF/MANIFEST.MF
        0  08-17-05 01:53   META-INF/
       68  08-17-05 01:53   META-INF/MANIFEST.MF
   ...

I am using Debian GNU/Linux unstable kernel 2.6.12.3 build with 
kernel-package
9.007 libc6 2.3.5-6 Sun Java 2 SDK 1.5 update 04 build with java-package 
0.26





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