Hello, Java policy on Java libraries (Ch. 2.4.) reads [1]:
Their classes must be in jar archive(s) in the directory /usr/ share/java, with the name packagename[-extraname] -fullversion.jar. The extraname is optional and used internally within the package to separate the different jars provided by the package. The fullversion is the version of that jar file. In some cases that is not the same as the package version. Some package must also provide a symbolic link from packagename-extraname.jar to the most compatible version of the available packagename-extraname-version.jar files. However, it seems that packages built with maven-{debian,repo}-helper default settings contain the opposite: JAR archives are named packagename-extraname.jar, and packagename-extraname-version.jar are symbolic links to packagename-extraname.jar. For example see libcommons-lang3-java. This looks like a contradiction to me. Or am I just misreading the policy? [1] /usr/share/doc/java-policy/debian-java-policy.txt.gz, java-policy 0.57 Best, Andrius