Questionable regression test LocaleEnhanceTest in IcedTea7

Dr Andrew John Hughes ahughes at redhat.com
Fri May 20 06:28:26 PDT 2011


On 10:50 Fri 20 May     , Pavel Tisnovsky wrote:
> Dr Andrew John Hughes wrote:
> 
> > There is a standard Oracle GPLv2+Classpath exception license above it
> > so I'm not sure what's going on here.  We need someone from Oracle to
> > clarify this.
> 
> Hi Andrew,
> thank you for your clarification.
> 
> > 
> > In the meantime, doesn't jtreg have an 'ignore' facility so we can
> > set the dependent test as to be ignored with an appropriate reason?
> > Then we can just turn it back on if this class is allowed back in.
> 
> I've added this test to a exclude list with an explanation why this test
> is "blacklisted". hg diff with the proposed change for IcedTea7 is
> stored in an attachment and here is ChangeLog entry:
> 
> 2011-05-20  Pavel Tisnovsky  <ptisnovs at redhat.com>
> 
>         * test/jtreg/excludelist.jdk.jtx:
>         Added LocaleEnhanceTest to a JTreg exclude list,
>         because the test base class can not be used
>         in IcedTea due to questionable licence.
> 
> Do you think it is ok to push this change to IcedTea7?
> 
> Thank you in advance,
> Pavel

Yes, this looks fine.  Thanks.

-- 
Andrew :)

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