RFC: forward-port pulse-java fixes from icedtea6 to icedtea7

[Omair Majid]

On 02/22/2012 09:08 AM, Andrew Hughes wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
>> Hi,
>>
>> The attached patch forward-ports a number of fixes that are present
>> in
>> pulse-java in icedtea6 to icedtea7 (HEAD). I ran through most of the
>> pulse-java tests and nothing seems to have regressed.
>>
>> One of these fixes should take care of PR875 too: the just-built
>> pulse-java is used as bootclasspath when generating headers (though I
>> havent actually tested it myself).
>>
> 
> Yes, these should have gone in a long time ago and is another issue
> with working going to 6 and not 7 (or 8).  Thanks for doing this.
> 

No problem :)

>> Shall I push this to icedtea8 as well?
>>
> 
> Please do.
> 

I will test this out later today - the patches will probably require
some tweaking. Do you have any ideas on how you plan to maintain the
icedtea8 forest/repo? I recall that before OpenJDK7 was released, you
would periodically merge (is 'merge' the right word here?) the IcedTea6
changes into IcedTea7. Do you plan to do something similar here. Or
should we try to add fixes to all repositories/release branches?

>> I am not sure if I want to change the dates in the changelog entries
>> from the original. Does anyone have strong feelings either way?
>>
> 
> Don't change the ChangeLog entries.  If you've had to do additional work
> only on that version, add an additional entry with the current date.
> This is what I did with e.g. your security patches when backporting them.
> 

I did massage the patches enough so they would apply to IcedTea7, but I
don't think I changed what the end result of applying the series of
patches was. I will post another patch to update NEWS and do some
cleanup later.

I have pushed the changesets.

Cheers,
Omair