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Bug 1677510

Summary: The Japanese Era name will be changed on 2019-05-01 / component java-1.8.0-openjdk / rhel6
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Reporter: Christian Horn <chorn>
Component: java-1.8.0-openjdkAssignee: Andrew John Hughes <ahughes>
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE QA Contact: OpenJDK QA <java-qa>
Severity: medium Docs Contact:
Priority: unspecified    
Version: 6.10CC: ahogbin, ahughes, amike, cww, dbhole, java-qa, jvanek, toneata
Target Milestone: rc   
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Fixed In Version: java-1.8.0-openjdk-1.8.0.212.b03-0.el6_10 Doc Type: If docs needed, set a value
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Clone Of: 1677505 Environment:
Last Closed: 2019-05-21 16:28:25 UTC Type: ---
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Description Christian Horn 2019-02-15 06:39:16 UTC
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.

Comment 2 jiri vanek 2019-03-12 15:00:44 UTC
Hi! This will go with next cpu, right?

Comment 3 jiri vanek 2019-03-13 11:09:13 UTC
Clarified, will be included in next CPU, this acking, as there is reserved workload for this time.

Comment 7 Christian Horn 2019-04-18 23:51:09 UTC
We have released java-1.8.0-openjdk-1.8.0.212.b04-0.el6_10
with https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0774
for rhel6.10.z, which seems to contain this fix.

A colleague mentioned this in 
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1677511#c10 .

So I guess we are here waiting for QA to confirm,
and will then close CURRENT RELEASE.

Comment 8 Christian Horn 2019-04-23 00:02:13 UTC
I consider just closing this bz CURRENTRELEASE.