On 11/04/2020 15:41, Weijun Wang wrote:
The options were already deprecated long ago:
$ $J14/bin/jarsigner
Usage: jarsigner [options] jar-file alias
jarsigner -verify [options] jar-file [alias...]
...
[-altsigner <class>] class name of an alternative signing mechanism
(This option has been deprecated.)
[-altsignerpath <pathlist>] location of an alternative signing mechanism
(This option has been deprecated.)
...
and they are listed in a "Deprecated Options" section in the tooldoc with "might be
removed in a future JDK release".
The only problem is I forgot to add a forRemoval=true argument to the
@Deprecated annotation of the classes.
I think the next step is to terminally deprecate the API, this means
adding forRemoval=true to create awareness at compile-time. You can
then remove in some future release. You can use the opportunity to add a
warning to the jarsigner tool so that someone using these options gets a
warning and knows it will be removed in the future (they might not see
deprecation notice in the usage/help output).
-Alan
