Hi, While investigating methods annotated as @Deprecated, but with missing @deprecated javadoc tags, I discovered that sun.net.w.p.h.HttpURLConnection.setDefaultAuthenticator has a trailing period after its @deprecated tag, causing javac to not recognize it as such.
Some observations: o The method has had this invalid @deprecated note since the initial load o It was marked @Deprecated in Java 8 o It seems to be unused across the OpenJDK code base, including tests o The class seems internal, given that its package is exported only to java.security.jgss What is the right step forward here? 0: Do nothing, nobody complained so far 1: Fix the @deprecated tag issue 2: Mark the @Deprecated forRemoval=true 3: Remove the method and the private static field now 4: Something else Thanks, Eirik.
