Should I report this bug to Icedtea or directly to OpenJDK

Robert Marcano robert at marcanoonline.com
Thu Aug 3 15:35:28 UTC 2017


On 08/03/2017 09:39 AM, Philip Race wrote:
> On 8/2/17, 12:39 PM, Robert Marcano wrote:
>> 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?
> Although I don't follow icedtea at all closely, I do know about openjdk ..
> and icedtea did not provide "the implementation for OpenJDK text layout".
> 
>>
>> 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.
> 
> I think this is a known OpenJDK bug : 
> https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8139178

Oh! I didn't found it, So sad it is really an old bug. will add a 
comment about it happening when a transparency is present (even on 
portrait printing).

> 
> -phil.



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