JDK-8191948, 8u211 and push confusion

Aleksey Shipilev shade at redhat.com
Thu Feb 21 18:03:10 UTC 2019


Hi,

I am so confused how do 8u tags correspond with actual fixes delivered.

Sifting through Christoph list:
  https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/issues/?filter=36394

Look at this bug:
  https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8191948

It has a single backport with fix version "8u211":
  https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8214637

...which is apparently Oracle-internal 8u branch? The backport issue indeed has no hgupdater comment
that goes with pushes to repositories, which seems to be usual for these internal pushes. Yet, here
is the push:
  http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8u/jdk8u/jdk/rev/b88f126a9690

...which apparently got into jdk8u202-b01?!

http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8u/jdk8u/jdk/file/jdk8u202-b01/src/share/classes/com/sun/tools/jdi/ReferenceTypeImpl.java#l1114

How so? Is it the hgupdater bug? Was 8191948 backport pushed accidentally to the 8u202?

-Aleksey




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