On 08/08/13 15:47, Niels Thykier wrote: > On 2013-08-08 15:15, Daniel Pocock wrote: >> On 08/08/13 15:08, Emmanuel Bourg wrote: >>> Manifest files support wrapped values, see: >>> >>> http://docs.oracle.com/javase/1.3/docs/guide/jar/jar.html#Notes%20on%20Manifest%20and%20Signature%20Files >>> >>> "No line may be longer than 72 bytes (not characters), in its >>> UTF8-encoded form. If a value would make the initial line longer than >>> this, it should be continued on extra lines (each starting with a single >>> SPACE)." >>> >> >> I tried doing that in debian/manifest, but it still didn't work, they >> were just joined together again >> >> Can you give an example of how debian/manifest should be written? >> >> [...] > jh_manifest will wrap the lines unconditionally. But that is not the > issue. The class path entry generated: > > """ > Class-Path: /usr/share/java/jar1.jar /usr/share/java/jar2.jar /usr/shar > e/java/jar3.jar > """ > > is perfectly legal and to my knowledge correct (which I believe was the > point Emmanuel was trying to make). The above will unwrap to (the eqv. of): > > Class-Path: /usr/share/java/jar1.jar /usr/share/java/jar2.jar > /usr/share/java/jar3.jar
Just to clarify: you are suggesting that I should manually break the lines in debian/manifest at 72 characters and then the JVM will concatenate them back together again at runtime? __ This is the maintainer address of Debian's Java team <http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-java-maintainers>. Please use debian-j...@lists.debian.org for discussions and questions.