bower.json violates bower spec with multiple files of same type in "main"

[jfillmore]

Polymer (all recent versions) has three html files in the "main" section of bower.json. While this doesn't cause any explicit installation errors (e.g. bower's return status code is still 0) it pollutes the output, requiring build processes to explicitly ignore these warnings.

For example, using bower 1.7.9:

bower polymer#=1.5.0      invalid-meta The "main" field has to contain only 1 file per filetype; found multiple .html files: ["polymer.html","polymer-mini.html","polymer-micro.html"]

This issue was also reported elsewhere on similar projects, but note that one user reports "Many Polymer elements do not comply with "single main" guideline (iron-behavior, etc). We use multiple main entries in catalog to display docs for multiple files."

• The "main" field has to contain only 1 file per filetype; found multiple .html files: ["iron-ajax.html","iron-request.html"] PolymerElements/iron-ajax#100
• cannot install through bower GoogleWebComponents/google-map#200

More information on the bower spec for "main":

• Define main as the entry-point files, one-per-filetype bower/spec#43
• https://github.com/bower/spec/blob/master/json.md#main
• https://github.com/bower/bower/blob/57cc6f7a40d18bc553ccbdb003bf616bca244947/packages/bower-json/lib/json.js#L198

Is there a possibility this will be changed to conform to Bower's spec, or do we need to live with this quirk?

[BorntraegerMarc]

is there an update on this?

[TimvdLippe]

This has been fixed:

polymer/bower.json

Line 4 in ca1ce19

"polymer.html"