Security fixes are back; other fixes can go in. Time for build 18?

[Joseph D. Darcy]

Andrew John Hughes wrote:
> 2009/11/13 Joseph D. Darcy <Joe.Darcy at sun.com>:
>   
>> Andrew John Hughes wrote:
>>     
>>> 2009/11/10 Andrew John Hughes <gnu_andrew at member.fsf.org>:
>>>
>>>       
>> [snip]
>>     
>>> Still need to look at this, but was wondering what was happening with
>>> timezone data in 6?
>>>       
>> It doesn't seem like much of anything is happening with timezone data in
>> OpenJDK 6!
>>
>>     
>>> I just noticed another update go through for 7,
>>> but I don't recall seeing any for 6.
>>>
>>> For 7:
>>>
>>> changeset:   1692:7aa6cb832991
>>> user:        peytoia
>>> date:        Mon Aug 31 14:50:33 2009 +0900
>>> summary:     6872467: (tz) Support tzdata2009l
>>>
>>> changeset:   1252:f29cd35647b1
>>> parent:      1193:d5a1223e9618
>>> user:        peytoia
>>> date:        Tue May 12 15:21:55 2009 +0900
>>> summary:     6834474: (tz) Support tzdata2009g
>>>
>>> changeset:   833:d75ae3f11e01
>>> user:        peytoia
>>> date:        Mon Jan 26 09:19:59 2009 +0900
>>> summary:     6796489: (tz) Support tzdata2009a
>>>
>>> changeset:   819:f67599e0ee33
>>> user:        peytoia
>>> date:        Thu Oct 30 13:12:54 2008 +0900
>>> summary:     6764308: (tz) Support tzdata2008i
>>>
>>> changeset:   816:244f62312fec
>>> user:        peytoia
>>> date:        Thu Oct 16 14:00:58 2008 +0900
>>> summary:     6758988: (tz) Support tzdata2008h
>>>
>>> changeset:   814:a9be64f0ad3e
>>> user:        peytoia
>>> date:        Tue Oct 07 18:25:59 2008 +0900
>>> summary:     6756569: (tz) Support tzdata2008g
>>>
>>> changeset:   640:66b0b1231530
>>> user:        peytoia
>>> date:        Mon Sep 08 17:35:07 2008 +0900
>>> summary:     6730743: (tz) Support tzdata2008e
>>>
>>> Plus the new one which I don't have in the IcedTea forest yet.
>>>
>>>       
>> I'd appreciate if you could backport these timezone changes.
>>
>> -Joe
>>
>>     
>
> Ok, no problem.
>
> So I make it for b18 we still have:
>
>   * the issue with the X11 patch I can't apply because of jcheck
>   

I'll check in with Mark, but we're both speaking at Devoxx next week so 
recognizing Latin-1 characters in jcheck may not happen immediately.

>   * Nimbus issues
>   * the diff issue with HotSpot Martin pointed out
>   

Right.

> Do we also want the timezone data changes for b18 or shall we do that
> in b19? I think b19's main feature is likely to be hs16.
>   

I think the time zone updates would be better in b18; the nature of 
these changes is very well-understood.

-Joe