[7u] RFR 8035166: Remove dependency on EC classes from pkcs11 provider

[Andrew Hughes]

On 18:04 Tue 15 Dec     , Andrew Brygin wrote:
> Hello Sergey,
> 
>  thanks for the clarification, I see that JDK-8035166 is a prerequisite
> for JDK-8233228.
> 
>  The 8u backport for JDK-8035166 has been pushed into jdk8u-dev, and has
> fixVersion  openjdk8u292 (April 2021). Most likely, 8u backport of
> JDK-8233228 will be available in the same release.
> 
>  It would be natural that these fixes should appear in 7u only after 8u,
> in April 2021. Unfortunately, at the moment  jdk7u does not have a  dev
> repo to accumulate fixes for next release. If you do not mind,  I would
> propose to postpone the push of JDK-8035166 to the April release cycle?
> What do you think?
> 
> Thanks,
> Andrew
> 

I'm still quite nervous about even including this in 8u, so I would
definitely wait until it has had more time to soak there before
considering it for 7u.

I'll be reviewing JDK-8233228 for 8u shortly and it'll very likely be
in 8u292. I wish there was a way of working around the need to move
the classes into rt.jar, but I can't see one, other than duplicating
the code and having to maintain two copies.

Thanks,
-- 
Andrew :)

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

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