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

[Sergey Chernyshev]

Hi Andrew,

What would you think be the target 7u release for JDK-8035166?

Does the patch look good to you?


Thanks,

Sergey

On 16.12.2020 23:42, Andrew Hughes wrote:
> 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,

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Best regards,
Sergey Chernyshev
Bellsoft LLC