Hi Alexandre, On 2022-03-23 16:33, Alexandre Rossi wrote: > Seems to work: > > $ ls -la /usr/share/java/htmlcleaner* > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 18 mars 18:20 > /usr/share/java/htmlcleaner-2.26.jar -> htmlcleaner.jar > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 176219 18 mars 18:20 /usr/share/java/htmlcleaner.jar > $ sudo dpkg -i > oss/debian/davmail/libhtmlcleaner-java_2.26-1+fix+bad+jar+name+1_all.deb > [...] > $ ls -la /usr/share/java/htmlcleaner* > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 176219 23 mars 15:27 > /usr/share/java/htmlcleaner-2.26.jar > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 23 mars 15:27 > /usr/share/java/htmlcleaner.jar -> htmlcleaner-2.26.jar
Many thanks for the proposed patch. It seems we need a decision now on which one is actually buggy: maven-debian-helper or java-policy. I would vote for upholding the java-policy if only the symlink placement switch does not break anything (neither reverse dependencies not the update mechanism). Having versionless symlinks parallels nicely lib*-dev shlib scheme and there might be situations where this is beneficial for Java too. Unluckily enough, there are >700 source packages now directly affected by this [1]. [1] https://lintian.debian.org/tags/bad-jar-name Best, Andrius
