/hg/icedtea6: 2010-01-05 Gary Benson <gbenson at redhat.com>

[Andrew John Hughes]

2010/1/11 Gary Benson <gbenson at redhat.com>:
> Andrew John Hughes wrote:
>> 2010/1/6 Gary Benson <gbenson at redhat.com>:
>> > ...if one fails to apply it's almost certainly because it
>> > has filtered into the HotSpot tarball we're using.
> [snip]
>> They will break for other reasons.  For one thing, we have
>> a HotSpot update (to HS16) coming post-b18.
>
> How is that not a patch filtering into the HotSpot tarball
> we're using?
>
> Cheers,
> Gary
>
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>

hs16 doesn't have zero.   It does have numerous other changes that
will no doubt cause lines to move and patches to break.

Obviously it won't be a problem if all these patches are on zero code
only, but will affect anything touching shared HotSpot code.
-- 
Andrew :-)

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