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Broken symlink for bcprov.jar

The symlink for bcprov.jar is broken in its latest version 1.78.1-1 and points to bcprov-jdk18on-*.jar. This causes problems in some dependent packages (see: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=298227).

I believe that the issue stems from line 45 of the PKGBUILD.

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44	install -Dm644 -t "$pkgdir/usr/share/java/$pkgname" build/artifacts/jdk1.8/jars/bcprov-jdk18on-*.jar
45	ln -s bcprov-jdk18on-*.jar "$pkgdir/usr/share/java/$pkgname/bcprov.jar"
46	install -Dm644 LICENSE.html -t "$pkgdir/usr/share/licenses/$pkgname"
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