New project: getting rid of IcedTea local patches

[Alan Bateman]

Andrew Haley wrote:
> :
> The page is at http://icedtea.classpath.org/wiki/IcedTea_JDK6_Patches
> These are the patches in icedtea/patches and icedtea/patches/hotspot.
>
>
> * Every patch should be assigned to someone.
>
> * Every patch should be discussed.
>
> * If we can, we will push a patch upstream.  If we can't the discussion
>   should explain why we can't.
>
> Here we go...
>
> Andrew.
>   
I'm not very familiar with IcedTea but I cloned the repository to see 
what these patches are about. Here are a few comments:

icedtea-6728542-epoll.patch seems to be a change-set I pushed to jdk7 
last year. It seems very reasonable to push this into jdk6/jdk6/jdk. Go 
for it!

icedtea-bytebuffer-compact.patch - this looks to be a partial fix to 
6593946. If so, 6593946 is already in jdk6/jdk6/jdk 
(http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk6/jdk6/jdk/rev/3e7bfcdcf96f).

icedtea-io_util-overflow.patch - this looks like the initial fix for 
6788196. Martin has already pushed this to jdk6/jdk7/jdk 
(http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk6/jdk6/jdk/rev/cc4d93e8ae7d).

icedtea-jvmtiEnv.patch - I thought JvmtiEnv::GetLineNumberTable already 
handled this case so I'm curious why this one is needed.

icedtea-network-unreachable.patch - I'm pretty sure net-dev would be 
open to this because it looks to be cases where the specific exceptions 
aren't thrown in the timed read case.

icedtea-sunsrc.patch - I'm not sure what this is about but it looks like 
it removes the service configuration files. Does JDI still work?

icedtea-testenv.patch - the changes to 
test/sun/net/InetAddress/nameservice/dns/cname.sh seems reasonable 
(pilot error is why this one was missed when the other tests were updated).

icedtea-jtreg-hatrun.patch - I suspect this is 6545295. We should just 
fix this test (serviceability-dev).

-Alan.

PS: I'm not on distro-pkg-dev so this mail might need the moderator to 
approve.