[1.7 & 1.8 BRANCH APPROVAL] Font and PaX patches

[Pavel Tisnovsky]

Dr Andrew John Hughes wrote:
> I'd like to backport the following fixes to 1.7 & 1.8:
> 
> changeset:   2076:3fd44a9bb9a3
> user:        Andrew John Hughes <ahughes at redhat.com>
> date:        Wed Aug 11 21:04:10 2010 +0100
> summary:     G244901: Skip test_gamma on hardened (PaX-enabled) kernels
> http://icedtea.classpath.org/hg/icedtea6/rev/cb463b94b82d
> 
> changeset:   2077:be9c0d303dfc
> user:        Andrew John Hughes <ahughes at redhat.com>
> date:        Wed Aug 11 21:05:04 2010 +0100
> summary:     G266295: Provide font configuration for Gentoo.
> http://icedtea.classpath.org/hg/icedtea6/rev/fc45c67366b9
> 
> changeset:   2078:8dbe3de24290
> tag:         tip
> user:        Andrew John Hughes <ahughes at redhat.com>
> date:        Fri Aug 13 00:35:50 2010 +0100
> summary:     Add a font configuration for RHEL6.
> http://icedtea.classpath.org/hg/icedtea6/rev/e8dfb4f0000d
> 
> The backports include the NEWS updates in http://icedtea.classpath.org/hg/icedtea6/rev/fe41bee26224.
> 
> Ok to push?

Hi Andrew,

these patches seems to be good from my perspective. The patch for RHEL6
fixes font rendering issue on this system.

Cheers
Pavel T.