Patch which fixes bug #6703377 (font outline transformation)

[Omair Majid]

On 10/15/2010 11:07 AM, Pavel Tisnovsky wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I prepared yet another patch for IcedTea6 HEAD. This patch refine
> computation of x and y coordinates during font outline transformation
> when negative values are used
> (see http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6703377)
>
> Attached files:
>
> 6703377-freetypescaler.patch - the patch itself
> hg_export_icedtea6.diff - changes I would like to make in IcedTea
>
> Correct behaviour of outline transformation is (partially) checked by
> regression test:
> java/awt/font/Rotate/TranslatedOutlineTest.java
>
> Can anyone please review this patch?

Upstream has resolved this bug using another method:
http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk7/2d/jdk/rev/7fba83f5f5e0

Is your patch fixing the exact same problem? Do you think it might be 
worth it to switch to upstream's fix?

Thanks,
Omair