Javadoc fails on aggregator modules

[Jonathan Gibbons]

On 12/27/23 12:10 PM, Ethan McCue wrote:
> For projects which contain only a module-info that transitively 
> requires other modules - i.e. like java.se <http://java.se> - the 
> javadoc tool will fail.
>
> This presents a problem for publishing those sorts of artifacts to 
> Maven Central, which requires some javadoc jar in order to publish. 
> The only workaround i've found is to go into the build tool, skip 
> normal javadoc generation, and do it through a hacked script.
>
> Is there a workaround I am missing, is this an intentional deficiency, 
> or is this something that should be fixed?

Hi Ethan,

Thanks for the report. This is for sure not an intentional deficiency!

This needs to be investigated and fixed as appropriate.

-- Jon
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