[fedora-java] Shipping of binaries in jar files

[Andrew Haley]

On 04/22/2013 11:01 PM, Orion Poplawski wrote:
> The eclipse PTP project that I package is starting to ship an executable in 
> one of its plugins.  The executable is packed into a jar file.  This prevents 
> debuginfo creation for the executable.
> 
> I started taking a look at how this might be handled elsewhere and found:
> 
> /usr/lib64/eclipse/dropins/cdt/eclipse/plugins/org.eclipse.cdt.core.linux.x86_64_5.2.0.201302132326.jar:
>     13327  Defl:X     3624  73% 02-13-2013 23:21 326488c7 
> os/linux/x86_64/libpty.so
>     23720  Defl:X     7151  70% 02-13-2013 23:21 c26c2c94 
> os/linux/x86_64/libspawner.so
> 
> but no debuginfo package.
> 
> Thoughts, comments?

This is pretty obviously a breach of packaging guidelines.  We shouldn't
be hiding DSOs in archives.

Andrew.