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

2022-03-23 Thread Alexandre Rossi
Hi, > > I vaguely remember that replacing a symlink with a file during a package > > update was causing some issues (i.e. the target is updated but the symlink > > Wasn’t that only for directories? Seems to work: $ ls -la /usr/share/java/htmlcleaner* lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 18 mars 1

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

2022-03-23 Thread Thorsten Glaser
On Wed, 23 Mar 2022, Emmanuel Bourg wrote: > I vaguely remember that replacing a symlink with a file during a package > update was causing some issues (i.e. the target is updated but the symlink Wasn’t that only for directories? bye, //mirabilos -- Infrastrukturexperte • tarent solutions GmbH A

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

2022-03-23 Thread Emmanuel Bourg
I vaguely remember that replacing a symlink with a file during a package update was causing some issues (i.e. the target is updated but the symlink isn't replaced). If that's still true I'd refrain from applying this change to maven-debian-helper. The slight deviation from the Java policy isn't

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

2022-03-23 Thread Alexandre Rossi
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.