RFC: drop patches/ssl.patch

[Dr Andrew John Hughes]

On 17:42 Wed 27 Apr     , Omair Majid wrote:

snip...

> On 04/27/2011 10:50 AM, Dr Andrew John Hughes wrote:
> > Have you tested this with a full build, i.e. not with --disable-bootstrap which I know is
> > how you tend to build?
> >
> 
> Yes. In fact, (after the screw-up last week) I am now building 
> icedtea{6,7} using just ./configure. I will build it again before I push.
> 

What screwup? Maybe you shouldn't have mentioned it.

> > I've already dropped it from 7.
> 
> Yes, I saw that it was missing. I was trying to find out if I should add 
> it to icedtea7 or drop it even from icedtea6.
> 

No, I don't want it back in IcedTea 7.  It won't apply anyway.

> > I couldn't find any record of why it was added (pre-1.0
> > if I recall correctly) and I think it was probably down to when we were using GNU Crypto
> > to provide cryptography, before Sun released theirs as part of OpenJDK.
> 
> The icedtea6 changeset a51ee3008713 indicates that it was added when 
> openjdk6 started providing crypto. But you are more familiar with the 
> history than I am.
> 

What I managed to dig up is above.  I'm happy to drop it.  If someone wants it, let them scream.

> Cheers,
> Omair

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