Guidance about binary / data files for JTREG tests

[Wang Weijun]

Florian

Just curious, how do you deal with a file like this

  http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk9/dev/jdk/file/4e7f3aac979b/test/sun/security/krb5/ktab/HighestKvno.java

Is the byte array inside considered binary?

Thanks
Max

On Apr 30, 2014, at 18:54, Florian Weimer <fweimer at redhat.com> wrote:

> On 04/29/2014 02:35 PM, Alan Bateman wrote:
> 
>> The other thing that came up previously is distributions that have a
>> policy of not allowing binary files. If I'm not mistake then they are
>> deleted by downstream patches, which in this case would lead to a test
>> failure.
> 
> Debian and Fedora are concerned with binary files which have closed source files.  These are stripped when noticed.  There is no indiscriminate deletion of binary files during the packaging process.
> 
> The Debian packaging tools had a problem with shipping binary data in local changes, but that's history now.
> 
> -- 
> Florian Weimer / Red Hat Product Security Team