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

[Goetz Lindenmaier]

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.

When I saw this change I had set the value in 11, too, right in the version bump.  Basically I think it is cleaner to have it, if we never forget to reset it in a final build :).  
It will impose extra work on those building the final bundle, but as Christoph votes for it too, I think we should use it.

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