Bug#719094: generates broken Class-Path in MANIFEST.MF

[Niels Thykier]

On 2013-08-08 15:15, Daniel Pocock wrote:
> On 08/08/13 15:08, Emmanuel Bourg wrote:
>> Manifest files support wrapped values, see:
>>
>> http://docs.oracle.com/javase/1.3/docs/guide/jar/jar.html#Notes%20on%20Manifest%20and%20Signature%20Files
>>
>> "No line may be longer than 72 bytes (not characters), in its
>> UTF8-encoded form. If a value would make the initial line longer than
>> this, it should be continued on extra lines (each starting with a single
>> SPACE)."
>>
> 
> 
> I tried doing that in debian/manifest, but it still didn't work, they
> were just joined together again
> 
> Can you give an example of how debian/manifest should be written?
> 
> [...]

jh_manifest will wrap the lines unconditionally.  But that is not the
issue.  The class path entry generated:

"""
Class-Path: /usr/share/java/jar1.jar /usr/share/java/jar2.jar /usr/shar
 e/java/jar3.jar
"""

is perfectly legal and to my knowledge correct (which I believe was the
point Emmanuel was trying to make).  The above will unwrap to (the eqv. of):

Class-Path: /usr/share/java/jar1.jar /usr/share/java/jar2.jar
 /usr/share/java/jar3.jar

~Niels