We no longer use the hack <manifestFile>META-INF/MANIFEST.MF</manifestFile>, thanks to cvgaviao's pull request in December 2012, which makes the osgi stuff a lot more maintainable and far less of a hack.

I presume you were working on an old clone and many of the issues have already been fixed.
Therefore, I am closing this set of pull requests as they don't take cvgaviao's changes into account. If you which certain other changes to get into master anyway, please reopen (with proper styling so the changes are clear).