Should I report this bug to Icedtea or directly to OpenJDK

[dalibor topic]

On 03.08.2017 12:40, Roman Kennke wrote:
> Am 02.08.2017 um 21:39 schrieb Robert Marcano:
>> Greetings. Where is the best place to report OpenJDK Java 8 bugs for
>> font related problems (printing)?. I ask because IIRC Icedtea provided
>> the implementation for OpenJDK text layout but it looks like recent
>> Icedtea doesn't provides those patches, Are those parts of Icedtea
>> already upstreamed for OpenJDK 8?
>>
>> Bug doens't happen on Oracle JVMs, when printing font metrics under
>> some conditions return negative or zero ascents. I have a test case
>> but I want to know where is the best bug database to report it.
> 
> Hi Robert,
> 
> as far as I know, IcedTea does not, and has never, provided a different
> font and text layout implementation compared to OpenJDK. However,
> OpenJDK uses a different implementation than Oracle JDK (not sure if
> it's still the case in JDK9 and 10, but I'm pretty sure it was the case
> with JDK8).
> 
> The best bugs database to report bugs to is https://bugs.openjdk.java.net

Unless you are a JDK developer, please use bugs.java.com to report 
issues with your own builds of OpenJDK sources.

If the issue is something that was discovered on a downstream build, 
provided to you by a third party (some operating system distribution, 
etc.), please use their mechanism for reporting issues in their builds 
instead, as such builds may contain additional patches.

cheers,
dalibor topic
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