Shading packetevents-spigot with Gradle Shadow causes its plugin.yml to override my plugin’s plugin.yml

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Describe the bug When producing a fat JAR with Gradle Shadow and adding com.github.retrooper:packetevents-spigot:2.10.0 as an implementation dependency, the plugin.yml inside that dependency replaces my own src/main/resources/plugin.yml in the final artifact, breaking my plugin metadata.

Software brand Gradle Kotlin DSL (build.gradle.kts) Shadow plugin: com.gradleup.shadow 9.0.0-beta15 Kotlin: 2.2.21, JDK: 21 paperweight: 2.0.0-beta.18 (paperDevBundle("1.21.8-R0.1-SNAPSHOT")) Dependency: com.github.retrooper:packetevents-spigot:2.10.0

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How To Reproduce

• Add implementation("com.github.retrooper:packetevents-spigot:2.10.0") to build.gradle.kts.
• Keep project’s plugin.yml in src/main/resources.
• Run gradlew clean shadowJar.
• Inspect the shaded JAR; plugin.yml is from PacketEvents, not from the project.

Expected behavior The shaded JAR should retain the project’s own plugin.yml.

Actual Behavior The shaded JAR contains plugin.yml from packetevents-spigot, overriding the project file.

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Workaround (for users) Control Shadow’s input order and duplicate strategy so the project resources win.

tasks.withType<com.github.jengelman.gradle.plugins.shadow.tasks.ShadowJar> {
    duplicatesStrategy = org.gradle.api.file.DuplicatesStrategy.EXCLUDE
}