8u232 Rampdown: Bug Triage

[Andrew John Hughes]

On 04/09/2019 06:54, Matthias Klose wrote:
> 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

aph raised the same issue and we've bumped it to 8u242. It's a clean
backport so I'll push it early once we've forked and then hopefully
you'll have plenty of time to test.

In the worse case, reverting is also trivial and the version can also be
selected via a runtime property.

Thanks,
-- 
Andrew :)

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