Request to backport 2 Kerberos related fixes

Dr Andrew John Hughes ahughes at redhat.com
Thu Aug 25 15:05:57 PDT 2011


On 08:13 Mon 22 Aug     , Kelly O'Hair wrote:
> 
> Oh wait a minute, please check with Weijun Wang (I will CC) on 6815182.
> I'm not seeing any record that this one was fixed in any jdk6 update, it may not apply to it
> but it is important that the fixes in openjdk6 are also in the jdk6 updates when it makes sense.
> 

This has never been the policy before, to my knowledge.  Why should the proprietary JDK6, 
over which we have no control, be a blocker on bugs for OpenJDK6?  For one thing, there
are significant differences in the code bases, as far as I'm aware.

> -kto
> 
> On Aug 22, 2011, at 8:00 AM, Kelly O'Hair wrote:
> 
> >> --
> >> 
> >> 6815182: GSSAPI/SPNEGO does not work with server using MIT Kerberos library
> >> 
> >> http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk7/jdk7/jdk/rev/9d5cce463fa0
> >> 
> >> changeset:   949:9d5cce463fa0
> >> user:        weijun
> >> date:        Fri Mar 13 09:20:56 2009 +0800
> >> summary:     6815182: GSSAPI/SPNEGO does not work with server using MIT
> >> Kerberos library
> >> 
> >> --
> 

-- 
Andrew :)

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