Bug#917302: java common creates a hidden etc/.java directory

[Emmanuel Bourg]

Le 25/12/2018 à 22:45, shirish शिरीष a écrit :

> According to cruft/cruft-ng java-common creates a hidden /etc/.java
> directory. I came to know about it using rkhunter where it showed up
> as a suspicious package. Asking on the debian-java ML came to know it
> is due to java-common package
> https://lists.debian.org/debian-java/2018/12/msg00010.html

/etc/.java isn't cruft, it contains the system preferences when using
the Java preferences API:

  https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/util/prefs/Preferences.html


Emmanuel Bourg