8u232 Rampdown: Bug Triage

[Matthias Klose]

On 03.09.19 07:30, Andrew John Hughes wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> We have reached the point of rampdown for 8u232 and need to decide which
> issues are still worth trying to push into that release and which should
> be deferred until 8u242.
> 
> I've been going through the list of bugs which are marked as fixed in
> Oracle's proprietary 8u231/2 [0] to see what is still missing in OpenJDK 8u:
> 
> 1. JDK-8222496/JDK-8198649
> "[8u] Switch on GTK3 as a default GTK L&F in client-libs"
> 
> This is 8222496 in 8u, but 8198649 in 11u just for extra confusion. I've
> see no review or approval request for this yet. As a simple default
> change, I'm happy for this to still go in early in rampdown while there
> is time for any side-effects to be tested for.
> 
> It's a clean backport, so I've flagged it for approval.

Is it safe to backport this one? I remember that the we reverted back the 
Debian/Ubuntu builds to use GTK2 by default because of rendering issues.  I 
can't remember the details, but maybe Tiago could point to these issues.

Matthias