Updating OpenJDK 6 with the 2013/06/18 errata

[Andrew Haley]

On 07/31/2013 04:45 PM, Andrew Hughes wrote:

> 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?

It's taking so long to get the release done that I'm tempted to
say that we'll skip the OpenJDK 6 release with the back-ported
security fixes and just move to a new HotSpot ASAP.

Andrew.