[jdk17u-dev] RFR: 8283911: DEFAULT_PROMOTED_VERSION_PRE not reset to 'ea' for jdk-17.0.4

[Christoph Langer]

On Wed, 30 Mar 2022 03:24:53 GMT, Andrew John Hughes <andrew at openjdk.org> wrote:

> DEFAULT_PROMOTED_VERSION_PRE has not been reset to 'ea' for either the 17.0.3 or 17.0.4 development cycles.
> 
> While the value is not used by `configure`, we have started to rely on this value ourselves to detect if the source is for an early access (EA) or general access (GA) build, so it would be helpful if the value in the sources was accurate.
> 
> This change would need to be reverted just before the `-ga` tag.

Without finally deciding on whether we should maintain a final commit for GA versions to remove 'ea', I think this PR should be merged to match up with jdk11u-dev.

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Marked as reviewed by clanger (Reviewer).

PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk17u-dev/pull/307