well

deploy_jar_rules=jar_rules(rules=[
        Duplicate('^reference\.conf', Duplicate.CONCAT_TEXT),
        Duplicate('^META-INF/services/', Duplicate.CONCAT_TEXT),
        Skip('.*/Log4j2Plugins\.dat'),
    ]),

seems to remove the file from the jar at least

Hey Aris. I’m not very familiar with this part of the codebase, but that looks like the right track. Does that fix things?

well it seemed to work as far as excluding the file goes, which is what I came here to ask about

Awesome, glad to hear!