Revisiting JDK-4512189: ZipConstants leaking into public APIs

[Eirik Bjørsnøs]

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> But keeping this "peculiarity" afloat does not come for free either.
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Let me add that keeping the constants also incurs a maintenance cost: The
fact that these constants are "effectively and accidentally public" is
unusual, but needs to be understood and enforced by maintainers. Their
names, values and location need to stay constant, regardless of needs to
improve and evolve our code base.

Eirik.
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