jpackage requests permission via a dialog

[Alan Snyder]

I tried using jpackage on macOS to create a DMG (which I have not done before) and was surprised when a system dialog was displayed requesting permission for Terminal to control Finder.

I found this issue described in JDK-8231855, which was closed without explanation as “not an issue”.

It seems to me that having a command line build tool try to interact with a user via a dialog is inappropriate, even if it happens only once per system.

I’m not sure why this dialog is shown, as it appears that all of the actions are performed by running the hdiutil program.

It does seem odd, however, that jpackage mounts the DMG to modify its contents. Shouldn’t the contents be set up before creating the DMG?

Is mounting the image the source of the dialog?

Is there some reason this cannot be fixed?