[PATCH][IcedTea6] Fix Backport from S6657673

Andrew Hughes gnu.andrew at redhat.com
Fri Apr 19 11:59:49 PDT 2013



----- Original Message -----
> Hi,
> 
> This patch improves our backport of the Java 7 S6657673 security fix.
> This fixes a problem where
> javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance would fail due to
> package access restrictions on Xerces.
> Okay to push?
> 

No.  If you're backporting patches, as has been said before, they should
be in the openjdk directory named with the bug ID so they can be traced.
This is hard for me to read now, never mind for long term maintenance.

> Thanks,
> Elliott
> 

-- 
Andrew :)

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