Backporting Patches

Andrew Hughes ahughes at redhat.com
Wed Jun 6 06:16:32 PDT 2012


Please be careful when backporting patches from 8/7 to 6 and note any
changes you need to make clearly in the ChangeLog.
 
Silent changes seem to have been made to a backport of 6610244 in
IcedTea6, which caused build breakage when that patch was then applied upstream:

http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk6-dev/2012-June/002693.html

Thanks,
-- 
Andrew :)

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