RFR: 8227229: Deprecate the launcher -Xdebug/-debug flags that have not done anything since Java 6 [v3]

Tue Jul 18 08:11:04 UTC 2023

On Tue, 18 Jul 2023 07:58:58 GMT, Jaikiran Pai <jpai at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Can I please get a review of this change which proposes to deprecate for removal the  `-Xdebug` option and `-debug` option of the `java` command? This addresses https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8227229.
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>> As noted in the JBS issue this option is currently a no-op and has been there only for backward compatible since even Java 8 days.
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> Jaikiran Pai has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
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>   include -debug (alias) option in the deprecated log message

Given that https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8227229 had more historical details about `-Xdebug` and `-debug`, I've updated this PR to link to that issue and also drafted CSR afresh https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8312220

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/14918#issuecomment-1639725244