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

[Pavel Tisnovsky]

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