Files from project's sources overwrite merged dependencies (2.0.0 regression)

[piotrp]

Presence of a file in META-INF/services/ makes sbt-assembly completely ignore the same file present in dependencies.

To verify this I modified bit tests in src/sbt-test/merging:

1. Add mustContain(dir / "META-INF" / "services" / "srv", Seq("srv1", "srv2")) to check rules in build.sbt

2. Prepare test data:

   mkdir -p src/main/1/META-INF/services
   echo "srv1" > src/main/1/META-INF/services/srv
   mkdir -p src/main/2/META-INF/services
   echo "srv2" > src/main/2/META-INF/services/srv
   cd src/main; ./mklibs.sh; cd ../../

Now we can verify that tests pass:

$ sbt -Dplugin.version=2.1.4 'assembly; check'
[info] welcome to sbt 1.7.2 (Eclipse Adoptium Java 11.0.20)
...
[info] 5 file(s) merged using strategy 'FilterDistinctLines' (Run the task at debug level to see the details)
...
[success] Total time: 2 s, completed 19 lis 2023, 19:01:56
[success] Total time: 6 s, completed 19 lis 2023, 19:02:02

So far so good, now let's add a file to local project:

mkdir -p src/main/resources/META-INF/services
echo "srv0" > src/main/resources/META-INF/services/srv

And re-run tests with check rule changed to mustContain(dir / "META-INF" / "services" / "srv", Seq("srv0", "srv1", "srv2")):

$ rm target/scala-2.12/foo.jar; sbt -Dplugin.version=2.1.4 'assembly; check'
[info] welcome to sbt 1.7.2 (Eclipse Adoptium Java 11.0.20)
...
[success] Total time: 1 s, completed 19 lis 2023, 19:14:12
[error] java.lang.Exception: file ...\Temp\sbt_9ee51824\META-INF\services\srv had wrong content:
[error] srv0
[error] *** instead of ***
[error] srv0
[error] srv1
[error] srv2

This worked correctly in sbt-assembly 1.2.0, and got broken with 2.0.0.

[piotrp]

Issue is still present in 2.3.1, when building on Windows.

I uploaded a simple standalone test to https://github.com/piotrp/sbt-assembly-issue-513: META-INF/services/javax.mail.Provider should contain multiple entries, but it gets overwritten by file from repository.

Build log indicates that parent file is not seen by sbt-assembly, so nothing gets merged - file from project dependencies is ignored.

[kuzinyu]

I'm facing the same problem. If I put a custom file in src/resources/META-INF/services of my project, it overwrites the result of merging multiple third-party src/resources/META-INF/services directory files with the same name, whereas all files must be merged, including my custom one.

Is there a workaround for this? Any plans for a fix?