FYI:[icedtea6] Add IDL header fix

[Dalibor Topic]

Mark Wielaard wrote:
> 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).
>   
We should think hard about moving IcedTea into the porters group, and 
having the tarball hosted there.

When the OpenJDK6 mercurial repository is up und running later in the 
summer, and the
OpenJDK bugzilla instance is ready to go, then the IcedTea repository 
could transfer over into a hopefully small patchset
on top of the OpenJDK6 repository. Meanwhile, it would be a good place 
to host code that is on its way upstream,
and a sanitized tarball. The external commiter infrastructure is ready, 
and we should use it.

cheers,
dalibor topic

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