Fixes of copyright headers: Should we downport them?

Aleksey Shipilev shade at redhat.com
Thu Mar 26 06:23:10 UTC 2020


On 3/19/20 4:39 PM, Lindenmaier, Goetz wrote:
> Hi Andrew,
> 
> There are a row of changes fixing copyrights downported by Oracle to 11.0.8,
> similar to this one:
> https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8220414
> 
> See also 
> https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/issues/?filter=38639
> 
> I'd consider them pretty pointless given the rules you set.
> So should we skip them?
> If so, I would mark them all as openjdk-na. 
> (In my opinion we should downport them, but I'll follow 
> your advice.)

Not Andrew, but I believe copyright headers are important enough to consider for backports. If the
reverse was true, we would not care about rejected hunks in copyright lines during the normal backports.

-- 
Thanks,
-Aleksey



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