Reviewer needed: backport of "6469266: Integrate Apache XMLSec 1.4.2 into JDK 7" into IcedTea6

[Andrew Hughes]

----- Original Message -----
> Andrew Hughes wrote:
> > ----- Original Message -----
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I'd like to add following "small" (well 1MB of size ;-) backport
> >> to
> >> IcedTea6:
> >> "6469266: Integrate Apache XMLSec 1.4.2 into JDK 7"
> >>
> >> This patch fixes (among other thing) following issue:
> >> http://icedtea.classpath.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=881
> >>
> >> hg diff created against recent IcedTea6 HEAD version is stored in
> >> an
> >> attachment
> >> in a BZIP archive (because I don't want to send quite big 1MB
> >> attachment to public mail list).
> >>
> >> Please note that it's not a direct backport because of (quite
> >> minor)
> >> differences
> >> between IT6 and OpenJDK7 sources. This patch applies cleanly and
> >> it
> >> does not
> >> seem to cause any compatibility issues.
> >>
> >> Here's ChangeLog entry:
> >>
> >> 2012-02-28  Pavel Tisnovsky  <ptisnovs at redhat.com>
> >>
> >> 	* Makefile.am: Add new patch.
> >> 	* NEWS: Mention backport.
> >> 	* patches/openjdk/6469266-Integrate_Apache_XMLSec_1_4_2.patch:
> >> 	Backport of S6469266: Integrate Apache XMLSec 1.4.2 into JDK 7
> >>
> >>
> >> Can anybody please review this change?
> >>
> >> Thank you in advance,
> >> Pavel
> >>
> > 
> > What's the motivation for this?  Does the proprietary JDK 6 use
> > this version?
> 
> Can not say anything about JDK 6, but tests mentioned here:
> 
> http://icedtea.classpath.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=881
> 
> failed only on IcedTea6. IT7/O7 looks ok, the same for proprietary
> JDK6.
> 
> Pavel
> 
> 

Yes, but IcedTea6/OpenJDK6 has to meet the Java 6 specification.
IcedTea7/OpenJDK7 obviously don't.  Do you have a link to the original
changeset?
-- 
Andrew :)

Free Java Software Engineer
Red Hat, Inc. (http://www.redhat.com)

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