[PATCH][IcedTea6] Fix Backport from S6657673
Elliott Baron
ebaron at redhat.com
Fri Apr 19 13:32:43 PDT 2013
Hi Andrew,
On 04/19/2013 02:59 PM, Andrew Hughes wrote:
>
> ----- 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
>>
There were actually a couple of patches I backported, and they were just
partial backports. I didn't think it was suitable to classify it as a
proper OpenJDK patch. The commit policy says only direct backports
should be placed in the openjdk subdirectory.
Thanks,
Elliott
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