jdk-9: some property files not moved from lib to conf

Alan Bateman Alan.Bateman at oracle.com
Fri Jul 7 15:37:52 UTC 2017


On 07/07/2017 16:32, Matthias Klose wrote:
> JDK 9 had a lot of property files moved to the conf subdir (from the lib
> subdir).  However there are still some residing in lib. Is this intended?
>
> The files in question are:
>
> 	lib/accessibility.properties
> 	lib/psfontj2d.properties
> 	lib/psfont.properties.ja
> 	lib/swing.properties
> 	lib/security/cacerts
> 	lib/security/default.policy
> 	lib/security/blacklisted.certs
>
> For the Debian/Ubuntu packaging I treated these files as configuration files in
> openjdk-8.
>
The files in the `conf` tree are user-editable, the files in `lib` 
aren't meant to be changed. JEP 220 [1] has full story.

-Alan

[1] http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/220


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