First off, thanks for your patience. The thing I was missing was that the build procedure for Debian includes applying patches to the code. I was following the build instructions from the BUILDING.txt file, which doesn't include the Debian-specific instructions. That completely explains what I was seeing with inconsistent JAR file contents.
I will test each version from +deb7u5 until the problem occurs again and report my results. Thanks! Allen
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