Updating OpenJDK 6 with the 2013/06/18 errata

[Andrew Hughes]

Hi,

The next set of webrevs for OpenJDK 6 will upstream the 2013/06/18
security updates from IcedTea 1.x.  Included in this set are two
HotSpot changes.

However, for continued long-term support of HotSpot on OpenJDK 6,
it seems preferable to rebase on the same version used by OpenJDK 7,
thus giving 6 access to the same security patches.  In the case of
2013/06/18, it was difficult to backport the HotSpot changes to
the aging hs20 in OpenJDK 6, especially as there is very little 
information about these patches, and future updates may be worse
still.  Rebasing to a newer version is long overdue.

The question is; do we do this as part of the next release with
the security updates or do we include the hs20 security patches
now for b28 then revert them and update to hs23 for b29?

We'd be especially interested in hearing the opinion of any
existing users of OpenJDK 6 as opposed to IcedTea 1.x.
-- 
Andrew :)

Free Java Software Engineer
Red Hat, Inc. (http://www.redhat.com)

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