[rfc][icedtea-web] Reproducer for PR1198: JSObject#eval creates invalid JS object

[Adam Domurad]

On 03/07/2013 07:17 AM, helpcrypto helpcrypto wrote:
> Hi.
>
>
> Today i updated/upgraded an Ubuntu 12.04 and checked dpkg --list:
> ii  icedtea-6-jre-cacao
> 6b27-1.12.3-0ubuntu1~12.04.1            Alternative JVM for OpenJDK,
> using Cacao
> ii  icedtea-6-jre-jamvm
> 6b27-1.12.3-0ubuntu1~12.04.1            Alternative JVM for OpenJDK,
> using JamVM
> ii  icedtea-6-plugin                       1.2-2ubuntu1.3
>              web browser plugin based on OpenJDK and IcedTea to execute
> Java applets
> ii  icedtea-netx                           1.2-2ubuntu1.3
>              NetX - implementation of the Java Network Launching
> Protocol (JNLP)
> ii  icedtea-netx-common                    1.2-2ubuntu1.3
>              NetX - implementation of the Java Network Launching
> Protocol (JNLP)
> ii  icedtea-plugin                         1.2-2ubuntu1.3
>              web browser plugin to execute Java applets (dependency
> package)
>
> IIRC, this bug is solved on icedtea 1.4 and beyond, so wont be fixed
> on my Ubuntu 12.04/previous Java versions.
> Am i right?
> Is there any chance this bugfix to be backported (thats the correct
> isnt it?) to ubuntu 1.3?

Hi HC, you do recall correctly.

However, while the bug fix could be backported to icedtea-web1.3 if some 
one prepares the backport and reviews it -- there are more important 
factors that would stop it from going in this version of Ubuntu.
For Ubuntu 12.04, they are only performing security backports. As it 
stands, this is icedtea-web1.2 *original release*. It does not contain 
non-security bug fixes we backported.

Sorry! But it'll be some time before 1.4 gets around, in the mean-time 
you'll have to point people upstream.

Happy hacking,
-Adam

> Thanks!
>
>> http://icedtea.classpath.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1198