> import a broken port with a ton of patches on top. Hmm, I would not consider the original port broken, it's what we used productive for several years before. Sure the code that exists now has some issues fixed (7 I think), but that's only the normal continuous bugfixing you have in any product.
Best regards, Goetz. > -----Original Message----- > From: jdk7u-dev [mailto:jdk7u-dev-boun...@openjdk.java.net] On Behalf > Of Andrew Haley > Sent: Donnerstag, 21. Juli 2016 18:52 > To: Andrew Hughes <gnu.and...@redhat.com> > Cc: jdk7u-dev@openjdk.java.net > Subject: Re: Merge ppc port into jdk7u-dev > > On 21/07/16 17:29, Andrew Hughes wrote: > > When backporting changes, you find differences between e.g. 7 and 8, > > and you need this kind of data mining, from tools like hg annotate, in > > order to establish why that change exists and whether or not it needs > > to be kept. > > Yes, but I am still far from convinced that it makes sense to import a > broken port with a ton of patches on top. It's a matter of keeping > the repo reasonably clean. What is special about the list of bugs > that you provided? Why is it OK to merge the changes before that? > > Andrew.
