FYI:[icedtea6] Add IDL header fix

[Mark Wielaard]

Hi,

On Thu, 2008-06-26 at 00:57 +0200, Matthias Klose wrote:
> Andrew John Hughes schrieb:
> > This applies the patch Iris posted for the IDL headers
> > to IcedTea6.
> > 
> this doesn't help (at least Debian), because these files are still in the
> upstream tarball and cannot be uploaded to Debian. Would it be possible to agree
> on how to produce a "clean" upstream tarball, which can be uploaded to every
> distribution, and use this one with IcedTea? Fedora has a script which removes
> some problematic files, I add some stuff which Debian needs to be removed. Can
> we checkin in this script and maybe the reduced tarball as well?

Yes, the Fedora packagers also complained in the past that this doesn't
directly help them because they cannot ship the orig tar ball as is. So
they end up sanitizing the original tar ball and then removing these
cleanup patches also (because they don't apply anymore of course).

I think the idea of having the sanitize script/patches as a separate
script/make target in icedtea makes a lot of sense. I wouldn't like
checking in the whole sanitized tar ball, but we can certainly generate
it once and make it available from icedtea.classpath.org whenever a new
openjdk6 bxx drop is made and integrated.

Cheers,

Mark