Bug#646921: Please only ship one JAR file

[Torsten Werner]

tags 646921 + wontfix
thanks

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

Torsten