I recall that someone (Jeremias or Simon?) had mechanically generated some exclusions to add to this file. It is possible that duplicates got inserted in that process. I know of no reason to retain duplicates.
On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 6:39 AM, Chris Bowditch <bowditch_ch...@hotmail.com>wrote: > Hi Fellow Committers, > > I was reviewing the current set of warnings generated by FindBugs and > found myself needing to add an extra exclusion. I noticed that the > exclusions file contains a lot of duplicates, e.g. > > <Match> > <Class name="org.apache.fop.render.**afp.**AFPImageHandlerRawCCITTFax"/> > <Method name="setAdditionalParameters"**/> > <Bug pattern="BC_UNCONFIRMED_CAST"/**> > </Match> > <Match> > <Class name="org.apache.fop.render.**afp.**AFPImageHandlerRawCCITTFax"/> > <Method name="setAdditionalParameters"**/> > <Bug pattern="BC_UNCONFIRMED_CAST"/**> > </Match> > > Does anyone know why the duplicates exist? I confirmed that removing the > duplicates does not re-introduce any warnings with FindBugs 1.3.9. > > Thanks, > > Chris >
