Bug#676784: Policy §10.5 and .jar file noticeable exception
On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 4:41 PM, Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org> wrote:
> Le Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 03:55:38PM +0300, Eugene Zhukov a écrit :
>>
>> I encountered a Lintian warning executable-not-elf-or-script with one
>> of my packages and then I learned about outstanding
>> Lintian<->debian-policy bug #539315.
>>
>> How about fixing the policy by adding an exception for .jar files?
>
> Dear Eugene,
>
> I do not see where the Policy forbids JAR files to be executable when they are
> intended to be executed. In line with others, I think that the interpretation
> of section 10.5 on symbolic links in #539315 is overly restrictive, as
> executable JAR files are not just compressed files, but entire archives.
>
> Altogether, I think that we should close #676784 (the clone of #539315), or
> clarify what is the intent of section 10.5, and what is meant by "compressed"
> there.
The problem with section 10.5 is in the clause "A symbolic link
pointing to a compressed file should always have the same file
extension as the referenced file".
So, if I have /usr/share/java/foo.jar, then I want to have executable
foo in /usr/bin through link foo -> ../share/java/foo.jar. Which is
now, as I see it, against the policy.
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