Re: Debian java policy and modular jar files

Hi Emanuel, Thanks for your reply. On Tue, 2019-01-22 at 09:17 +0100, Emmanuel Bourg wrote: > Hi Bill, > > Le 22/01/2019 à 01:09, Bill Zaumen a écrit : > > > the following commands will cause java to crash: > > > > java -p /usr/share/java --list-modules &

Debian java policy and modular jar files

The Debian java policy appears to need some clarification regarding how to handle modular jar files. A few things don't work the way one might expect with Java 11 (the default jdk on my system). 1. If you create a file with a version string such as libfoo-1.1.0.jar and symbolic link l

Problem with the Debian policy for Java

The Java extension mechanism (see http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/ext/basics/install.html ) requires that jar files containing libraries, not applications, be installed in a standard directory. For Linux, this directory is /usr/java/packages/lib/ext - this directory is the default one used