RFE: Inclusion of correct permission resolution patch in IcedTea

[Andrew John Hughes]

On 16 July 2010 17:24, Matthias Klose <doko at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> On 16.07.2010 18:16, Andrew John Hughes wrote:
>>
>> On 16 July 2010 17:12, Deepak Bhole<dbhole at redhat.com>  wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Currently, there is a permission resolution problem in OpenJDK that
>>> prevents it from resolving policies as per spec. The bug and the
>>> necessary patch are here:
>>>
>>> https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/show_bug.cgi?id=100142
>>>
>>> Is it okay to commit this into IcedTea until the fix reaches upstream?
>>>
>>> Patch attached for convenience.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Deepak
>>>
>>
>> As it's a regression from the proprietary JDK's behaviour and the
>> spec., I agree that this should be applied.  Please add it to HEAD,
>> and backport it to the 1.6&  1.7 branches.
>>
>> doko, do you want this for 1.8 too?
>
> yes, if it's already in 1.7 and icedtea6. I'm just trying to avoid extensive
> backports to the build system in the branch (1.6 didn't build anymore for
> configurations used by me).
>
>  Matthias
>

I agree; that's why I was wary about backporting the change to the plugin build.

I don't recall any 'extensive backports' to 1.6, only changes to keep
the branch building.  If there is a particular issue, let me know what
it is then I can look into it.

Thanks,
-- 
Andrew :-)

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