RFR: JDK-8164094: javadoc allows to create a @link to a non-existent method [v2]

Tue Jan 30 16:17:18 UTC 2024

On Mon, 29 Jan 2024 22:11:25 GMT, Jonathan Gibbons <jjg at openjdk.org> wrote:

> All that is out of scope for here, and can be handled in [JDK-8324320](https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8324320), so I have one last question before I add my approval (or Pavel can lower the `/reviewer` count): Does this change affect the published/latest JDK API documentation in any way? I'm guessing not, but we've been surprised before.

It affects the published JDK API docs insofar as it exposed [3 cases of method references with wrong types](https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8321889). This has already been fixed back in December.

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/17069#issuecomment-1917081762