[FELIX-6676] Felix bundle plugin: Embed-Dependency with activator class always generates Bunde-Activator and Bundle-ActivationPolicy in target manifest

• Type: Bug
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: maven-bundle-plugin-5.1.9
• Component/s: Maven Bundle Plugin
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Andrei Shakirin
• Created: 06/Dec/23 23:53
• Updated: 06/Dec/23 23:56

Description

Use case: I use felix bundle plugin 5.1.9 to embed third party library with transitive dependencies into my bundle with maven.

Problem: I faced the following problem: one transitive dependency (in this case it was log4j-api-2.21.1.jar) is bundle itself and contains following entries in manifest file:
Bundle-Activator: org.apache.logging.log4j.util.Activator
Bundle-ActivationPolicy: lazy
For some reason, Felix bundle plugin always sets this Bundle-Activator and Bundle-ActivationPolicy into generated manifest.
I have no chance neither to redefine it to my activator no to remove it.

Such behaviour looks for me like a bug.

Sample project to reproduce the problem is attached.