unwrapDateline on a polygon with a hole

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spatial4j/src/main/java/org/locationtech/spatial4j/shape/jts/JtsGeometry.java

Line 492 in 2926812

throw new IllegalArgumentException("The inner ring doesn't appear to be within the exterior: "

Why does this check in unwrapDateline() require the exterior ring of a polygon to contains() any interior rings? Doesn't contains() on two LineStrings require one to be a subset of the other? If so, you wouldn't be able to have polygons that contain holes and cross the dateline, which is the problem I'm running into.