Hi,
PR 21170 showns to rather unrelated problems AFAIU, but I'd like some feedback - especially since Magesh and Conor have been through part of this for PR 4683 already.
Problem 1 seems to be that the MANIFEST spec says that attributes cannot be repeated in one section while other specs say that you could do that for the Class-Path attribute in the main section. It seems that JDK 1.4.2 now emits warnings for duplicate attribute names, and these warnings include the Class-Path attribute.
I don't see a solution apart from an attribute (mergeclasspath?) to control the behavior for the Class-Path attribute. If set to true multiple Class-Path attributes would get folded into one - making JDK 1.4.2 happy. For backwards compatibility its value would need to be false even though java.util.jar.Manifest will ignore all but the first entry, or so it seems.
we could always complain to Sun that they have just broken a lot of programs and are inconsistent with their docs
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