reopen 626329 found 626329 0.35 thanks Hello !
Unless I'm very much mistaken, jh_classpath still breaks symlinks, see: 20:38 vincent@tanyaivinco ~/tmp/js/jsymphonic-0.3.0.Ode.To.Freedom+svn387 ls -l debian/jsymphonic/usr/share/java/* -rw-r--r-- 1 vincent vincent 1932895 May 15 20:38 debian/jsymphonic/usr/share/java/jsymphonic-0.3.0.Ode.To.Freedom+svn387.jar lrwxrwxrwx 1 vincent vincent 42 May 15 20:38 debian/jsymphonic/usr/share/java/jsymphonic.jar -> jsymphonic-0.3.0.Ode.To.Freedom+svn387.jar 20:39 vincent@tanyaivinco ~/tmp/js/jsymphonic-0.3.0.Ode.To.Freedom+svn387 jh_classpath -pjsymphonic 20:39 vincent@tanyaivinco ~/tmp/js/jsymphonic-0.3.0.Ode.To.Freedom+svn387 ls -l debian/jsymphonic/usr/share/java/* -rw-r--r-- 1 vincent vincent 1932895 May 15 20:38 debian/jsymphonic/usr/share/java/jsymphonic-0.3.0.Ode.To.Freedom+svn387.jar -rw-r--r-- 1 vincent vincent 1932930 May 15 20:39 debian/jsymphonic/usr/share/java/jsymphonic.jar 20:39 vincent@tanyaivinco ~/tmp/js/jsymphonic-0.3.0.Ode.To.Freedom+svn387 jh_classpath -V Javahelper Version 0.35 Looking at the code, it makes sense: if ( -l $target ){ # Follow links my $dest = Cwd::abs_path($target); error("Cannot resolve link $target: $!") unless $dest; $target = $dest; $link = 1; } # no-act implies others tools are in no-act mode as well error("Cannot update $jar: it does not exist.") unless -f $jar or !$dh{NO_ACT}; if ($link){ verbose_print("Updating symlinked $target (via $orig)"); } else { verbose_print("Updating $target"); } update_jar($jar, undef) unless $dh{NO_ACT}; You modify $target to point to the target of the link, but you keep on modifying $jar, which still points to the symlink. Cheers, Vincent __ This is the maintainer address of Debian's Java team <http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-java-maintainers>. Please use debian-j...@lists.debian.org for discussions and questions.