[PATCH] jdk7u91-b01 retro-active security patch review

[Andrew Hughes]

----- Original Message -----
> >
> >
> > The 7u tree can always be retrieved from the IcedTea trees by checking out
> > the appropriate tag (jdk7u91-b01 in this case). This is worth bearing in
> > mind
> > if an updated raw OpenJDK tree is required before this upstream review
> > process
> > completes.
> 
> 
> Thanks - that's useful to know.  If this is general IcedTea policy
> ("whenever openjdk and icedtea trees share tags, they refer to identical
> trees") that should be published somewhere on icedtea.classpath.org (and on
> https://wiki.openjdk.java.net/display/jdk7u/Main ?).
> 

Well, it's a by-product of how the repositories work; IcedTea is a superset
of the changesets in a particular version of OpenJDK, and the two are combined
by merge changesets which bring in the latest OpenJDK changesets. It is worth
an explicit mention on the IcedTea page though, I guess. I'll look into it.

Thanks,
-- 
Andrew :)

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

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