RFR: 8302819: Remove JAR Index

[Alan Bateman]

On Tue, 28 Mar 2023 18:31:28 GMT, Lance Andersen <lancea at openjdk.org> wrote:

> If we are thinking of emitting a warning, we probably should do that in = JDK 22 as that could break tests with golden files so we might want to give a heads up in JDK 21 before doing this

The best option might be to just have `jar -i` work as before (as it does in the current proposal) but have it warn that -i may be changed to do nothing and/or be removed in a future release. If there are tests that looking for META/INDEX.list then they will work as before.

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/13158#issuecomment-1487486680