RFC: Backport upstream patch to fix Bug 477

[Dr Andrew John Hughes]

On 23 July 2010 19:27,  <jon.vanalten at redhat.com> wrote:
>
> ----- "Andrew Haley" <aph at redhat.com> wrote:
>
>> On 07/23/2010 05:10 PM, jon.vanalten at redhat.com wrote:
>> > Urp.  "hg add" helps.  Here is proper patch, with full contents.
>> >
>> > ----- "jon vanalten" <jon.vanalten at redhat.com> wrote:
>> >
>> >> Hello all,
>> >>
>> >> This patch eliminates a NPE in swing.  It has been accepted in
>> >> upstream jdk7.  I'd like to add it to IcedTea6 while we wait for it
>> to
>> >> percolate down to an openjdk6 release.  OK to push?
>>
>> Looks good.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Andrew.
>
> Thanks Andrew.  Pushed to IcedTea6 HEAD http://icedtea.classpath.org/hg/icedtea6/rev/6bf6ff2ad1ea
>

Thanks for doing this.

There is no defined process 'for it to percolate down to an openjdk6
release'.  You need to explictly request permission for the backport
from Joe Darcy on the jdk6-dev list, as, in my experience, these
things don't tend to happen automatically.
-- 
Andrew :-)

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