New IcedTea6 Repository

[Joseph D. Darcy]

Hello.

Mark Wielaard wrote:
> Hi Joe,
>
> On Sun, 2008-02-17 at 14:24 -0800, Joseph D. Darcy wrote:
>   
>> If you send me Sun bug ids (here or over on jdk6-dev at openjdk.java.net), 
>> I can lookup if they are expected to be fixed or not in the OpenJDK 6 
>> code.  The OpenJDK 6 code branched from JDK 7 from around build 20 to 22 
>> so most fixes should be present in OpenJDK 6 too.  We're also interested 
>> in having external fixes migrate back.
>>     
>
> We try to always add a Sun Bug ID URL to any icedtea bugzilla entry. But
> this is sometimes a little hard since it can take days (sometimes even
> weeks) for sun bug ids to show up publicly. See the URL field of the
> bugzilla entry. (I just added a couple.)
>
> After a quick look the following bugzillas/bugids seem relevant:
>
> http://icedtea.classpath.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=67
> http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6598089
> Netbeans modal dialogs won't properly close. Confirmed fixed in 6.
>   

Which is as expected.

> http://icedtea.classpath.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=30
> http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6575880
> Float.toString(float) adds trailing zeros
>   

That fix isn't to the JDK code yet, but I'm the responsible engineer so 
I know who to talk to about getting this done :-)

> http://icedtea.classpath.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22
> http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6573250
> java.util.Currency.getSymbol(Locale) returns wrong value when locale is
> not US.
>   

I'll talk to the team in question.

> http://icedtea.classpath.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=33
> http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6576055
> Integer.parseInt(String) should not accept just '+'
>   

Yes, my fix for that should be in OpenJDK 6.

> http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6532373
> xcb_xlib.c:50: xcb_xlib_unlock: Assertion 'c->xlib.lock' failed.
> For which there doesn't seem to be IcedTea bug (bad us).
>   

The fix should be in OpenJDK 6.

Regards,

-Joe