[FELIX-4936] Private-Package implicit export negation

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: maven-bundle-plugin-2.5.4
• Fix Version/s: maven-bundle-plugin-future
• Component/s: Maven Bundle Plugin
• Labels: features
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: codetackler
• Created: 20/Jun/15 22:08
• Updated: 20/Jun/15 22:08

Description

Currently when you have a bundle private package that doesn't contain the special internal or impl name, the negation of that package has to be explicitly added to the Export-Package list to keep that package from being exported. It seems to me that having to explicitly add this negation is redundant since the plugin should be able to add the negation automatically under the hood. My guess is that it is probably complicated to implement this for wild-carded Private-Package entries but it seems like it could be trivial for regular package entries. Perhaps the feature could be limited to non wild-card entries.