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RFC: Introduce "primary package" vs. "embedded- or sub-packages" #2418
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A few thoughts on design:
- when a package embeds other packages, we do not want to report the files of sub-pckages as being part of these of the main parent packages
- we would want to introduce a new embedded_packages attribute that would list sub packages in the parent
We do not have such concept yet and this requires further design.
Related: aboutcode-org/purldb#163
As an example here is an uberjar: https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/apache/htrace/htrace-core4/4.2.0-incubating/htrace-core4-4.2.0-incubating.jar
Short Description
In the same way we have dependencies, we often have:
We should have a heuristic to report one of these has primary and the other as sub/embedded packages.
This would likely be done in a post-scan step.
Data-wise this could be a list of Package URL similar to what we have for dependencies.
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