Bug 1677505

Summary:	The Japanese Era name will be changed on 2019-05-01 / component java-1.7.0-openjdk / rhel6
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6	Reporter:	Christian Horn <chorn>
Component:	java-1.7.0-openjdk	Assignee:	Andrew John Hughes <ahughes>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:	OpenJDK QA <java-qa>
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	unspecified
Version:	6.10	CC:	ahogbin, ahughes, dbhole, java-qa, jdoyle, jvanek
Target Milestone:	rc
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Fixed In Version:	java-1.7.0-openjdk-1.7.0.221-2.6.18.0.el6_10	Doc Type:	If docs needed, set a value
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Clone Of:	1677504
Clones:	1677510 1677511 1677512 1687324 (view as bug list)		Environment:
Last Closed:	2019-08-22 19:40:25 UTC	Type:	---
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Description Christian Horn 2019-02-15 06:10:23 UTC

+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #1677504 +++

+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #1677502 +++

Description of problem:
The Japanese Era name will be changed on 2019-05-01 / component icu / rhel5
openjdk code is referring to the japanese era name.

All openjdk versions are affected.

Expected results:
The upcoming era name should properly be dealed with.

Additional info:
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_imperial_transition,_2019
- the new era name has not yet been announced.
- We also have to modify glibc (for example bz1555189) and icu.
- openjdk upstream seems to have implemented the new era now, with name NEWERA, which they
intend to replace then later.  I guess they wanted to be sure to have time to debug
issues they might have with the change itself now that there is time, and later just
want to replace the era.
http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk/jdk/rev/2e3f73b616c2
https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8202088
https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8205432
We are not necessarily requesting this in-between-step, the request of our customers is to have openjdk eventually deal with the new era name.

--- Additional comment from RHEL Product and Program Management on 2019-02-15 06:08:46 UTC ---

Since this bug report was entered in Red Hat Bugzilla, the release flag has been set to ? to ensure that it is properly evaluated for this release.

Comment 2 jiri vanek 2019-03-12 15:00:39 UTC

Hi! This will go with next cpu, right?

Comment 3 jiri vanek 2019-03-13 11:09:20 UTC

Clarified, will be included in next CPU, this acking, as there is reserved workload for this time.

Comment 7 Andrew John Hughes 2019-08-22 19:40:25 UTC

This was fixed in the April 2019 update across all versions of RHEL: http://bitly.com/it20618

Comment 8 Christian Horn 2019-08-23 00:39:10 UTC

Seems like java-1.7.0-openjdk-1.7.0.221-2.6.18.0.el6_10
from https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0790 is the
errata which first included the fix.