Re: maven-*-helper JAR placement seems to contradict Java policy

[Alexandre Rossi <niol@zincube.net>]

Hi,

> >>> Not sure though what is the impact of this policy inversion. Most of
> >>> Java-related software seems to read both regular files and symbolic
> >>> links transparently.
> >>
> >> There isn't much impact, both styles are fine in my opinion.
> > 
> > This seems to trigger https://lintian.debian.org/tags/bad-jar-name
> 
> Exactly. Thus lintian seems to follow the current Java policy and
> correctly emit warnings.
> 
> I am trying to understand if this is a bug in maven-*-helper, or a
> result of overly strict policy. One of these should be changed.

I finally found some time to look into this and came up with a patch.

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1007923

Thanks,

Alex