Bug#1007923: maven-*-helper JAR placement seems to contradict Java policy

[Pierre Gruet]

Hello everyone,

Le 29/03/2022 à 11:59, Markus Koschany a écrit :
> Am Montag, dem 28.03.2022 um 21:06 -0700 schrieb tony mancill:
>> [...]
>> I am interested to hear other opinions from the Debian Java Team.
> 
> I have no objections with implementing this change and I agree that a
> versionless symlink is preferable for consistency reasons. The current behavior
> doesn't do any harm though. The Lintian warning should be fixed with a regular
> upload and not just for the sake of it.
> 

Thanks for addressing the issue of the jar placement. I also subscribe 
to the versionless symlink approach justified by Andrius.
Admittedly we won't be in a hurry to do the uploads ot the concerned 
packages because of this change.

> Regards,
> 
> Markus

Best regards,

-- 
Pierre
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