Bug#746625: libclosure-compiler-java: Running from JAR fails with “no main manifest attribute”

[Ben Finney]

Package: libclosure-compiler-java
Version: 20130227+dfsg1-5
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

References to using the Closure compiler often give instructions to
run the JAR file directly. However, this fails on Debian::

    $ java -jar /usr/share/java/closure-compiler.jar
    no main manifest attribute, in /usr/share/java/closure-compiler.jar

The behaviour should instead be to run the JAR as a program.

There seems to be an open issue upstream
<URL:https://code.google.com/p/closure-compiler/issues/detail?id=37>,
peripherally related but with a patch for this bug.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.13-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_AU.UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

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Ben Finney <ben at benfinney.id.au>
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