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 > > java -p /usr/share/java --

Re: Debian java policy and modular jar files

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 > java -p /usr/share/java --describe-module MODULE I don't think this is a use case we can reasonably support. Even if there were no sy

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