[ale] Should JAR files go in lib or share?

[Chris Fowler]

I was having a discussion with a developer this morning about my choice to put our JAR files in lib and since they are technically libraries should be there, but when going after another JAR file I noticed Ubuntu uses share. lib.

I noticed that CentOS and Ubuntu have different ideas too.

CentOS places the actual file in lib and a symlink in share.

[DEVEL libxalan-java]$ ls -l /usr/share/java/jna.jar
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 22 Nov  8  2019 /usr/share/java/jna.jar -> ../../lib/java/jna.jar

Ubuntu puts the jar in share:
chris at mechonis:~/Downloads$ ls -l /usr/share/java/js.jar
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 14 Jan 20  2017 /usr/share/java/js.jar -> js-1.7.7.1.jar

I'm going with lib because the nature of these files aare that they are "libarires" that get loaded, executed, and are an API.  They look like a libXXXX.so and quack like a libXXXX.so.



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