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Michael Osipov commented on MSHARED-362:
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While some find the
[{{Built-By}}|https://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/maven-dev/201506.mbox/%3Cop.xzvea6m2kdkhrr%40robertscholte.dynamic.ziggo.nl%3E]
entry useful, I think it is most of the time useless. From an external point
of view, you have no idea who this user is because it is the local username of
the person who built this JAR on his machine. Someone doesn't even want to have
this information disclosed. It doesn't help you much after all. You will file
an issue anyway. In a company this might be a valueable information but can be
added anyway.
I am actually inclined to drop this manifest entry at all. I see no general
purpose information in this entry. [~khmarbaise], [~rfscholte], what you do
think? We have a new major. Safe to remove, I guess. I would also change the
title of the issue to: "Remove Built-By manifest entry due to limited
use/information".
> Support removing default manifest entries with maven-archiver plugin
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> Key: MSHARED-362
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MSHARED-362
> Project: Maven Shared Components
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: maven-archiver
> Affects Versions: maven-archiver-2.4.2, maven-archiver-2.5
> Reporter: Richard Neish
> Priority: Minor
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> As described in the StackOverflow question at
> http://stackoverflow.com/q/25098307/274350 maven-archiver should allow the
> user to remove the default manifest entries, such as "Built-By:"
> Currently it is possible to set an empty value for these default entries, but
> not to remove them from the manifest.
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