[FELIX-6601] Instruction Require-Capability not used precisely

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Component/s: Maven Bundle Plugin

Environment

Apache Maven 3.9.0 (9b58d2bad23a66be161c4664ef21ce219c2c8584)
Maven home: C:\java\apache-maven-3.9.0
Java version: 1.8.0_362, vendor: Temurin, runtime: C:\Program Files\Eclipse Adoptium\jdk-8.0.362.9-hotspot\jre
Default locale: en_US, platform encoding: Cp1252
OS name: "windows 10", version: "10.0", arch: "amd64", family: "windows"

• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Gary D. Gregory
• Created: 10/Mar/23 16:28
• Updated: 10/Mar/23 16:28

Description

How do I prevent the maven-bundle-plugin 5.1.8 to generate MANIFEST.MF/Require-Capability?
It seems that the instruction Require-Capability is not used precisely, it adds to the entry rather than set it.

In my example, for legacy requirements, Require-Capability must be absent, and I find no way to implement this. Using:

<Require-Capability></Require-Capability>
or
<Require-Capability>$${def;empty}</Require-Capability>

Cause the following to be generated for my Maven module:

Require-Capability: osgi.extender;filter:="(&(osgi.extender=osgi.compo
nent)(version>=1.3.0)(!(version>=2.0.0)))",osgi.ee;filter:="(&(osgi.e
e=JavaSE)(version=1.8))"

Any ideas?