Should I report this bug to Icedtea or directly to OpenJDK

[Andrew Hughes]

On 3 August 2017 at 14:39, Philip Race <philip.race at oracle.com> 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".
>

In the very early days, it did have its own text layout implementation, taken
from GNU Classpath, as the OpenJDK project only provided binary plugs for
this, which were unusable by GNU/Linux distributions. IcedTea itself, however,
has never produced much actual code. It's more a system to make OpenJDK
packagable.

However, I think where the confusion arises, is that Oracle's
proprietary binaries don't use the OpenJDK text layout code, so
the main example people are aware of where this code *is*
used are binaries produced from IcedTea on various distros.

That said, the Fedora java-1.8.0-openjdk binaries are not based on
IcedTea, but on the aarch64/jdk8u tree, with the additional maintenance
headaches this leads to.
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Andrew :)

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