RFC: backport of JDK-8215756: Memory leaks in the AWT on macOS

[Mario Torre]

On Tue, Feb 18, 2020 at 11:40 AM Andrew Hughes <gnu.andrew at redhat.com> wrote:
> > Also, I updated the copyright one one of the files.
> >
> > new webrev:
> > http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~stooke/webrevs/jdk-8215756-jdk8u/02/jdk.02/
> >
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > -Simon
> >
> >
>
> Why are we chnaging the copyright dates from 2018 in the original patch
> to 2019? That would just seem to create trouble for later backports.
>
> I agree with Aleksey's comments in general about keeping as close to the
> original change as possible. Backports are not the place to be creative.

I think this stems from the practice of updating the copyright year in
files that are touched by changes, but I agree with you we shouldn't
do it in backports unless the original patch also has the change.

Cheers,
Mario
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Mario Torre
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