Reproducible build backports to jdk17u-dev ?

[Severin Gehwolf]

Hi Andrew,

On Tue, 2022-01-11 at 10:50 +0000, Andrew Leonard wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm looking to backport some recent reproducible build fixes & features to
> jdk-17.0.3+, for example the new jar & jmod --date option:
> 
> https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/commit/214f98f6b07e312e6f4ded5364a94277114784e7
> Before I get too far down this road, does anyone see any blockers to
> approval for such backports? The guidance (
> https://wiki.openjdk.java.net/display/JDKUpdates/JDK+17u) mentions
> "reproducibility" as an accepted approval. The above PR for example
> involves a CSR for the new --date option.

It will depend on the invasiveness of individual changes. A list of
candidate bugs would be good to have. Some might be fine, some not so
much.

I see that JDK-8276766 required a CSR so a backport will need a CSR
targetting JDK 17 too.

So the short answer: It depends ;-)

Thanks,
Severin