Summary

Mark the deprecated java.security.acl APIs with forRemoval=true.

Problem

The APIs in java.security.acl were deprecated in JDK 9 but have had the following warning in the package description for a very long time:

"The classes and interfaces in this package have been superseded by classes in the java.security package. See that package and, for example, java.security.Permission for details."

Since there have been suitable replacements since JDK 1.2, there is no reason to retain this package and it should be removed in a future release.

Solution

Mark the deprecated java.security.acl APIs with forRemoval=true.

Specification

Make the following change to the java.security.{Acl, AclEntry, AclNotFoundException, Group, LastOwnerException, NotOwnerException, Owner, Permission} classes:

-@Deprecated(since="9")
+@Deprecated(since="9", forRemoval=true)