Guidance about binary / data files for JTREG tests (original) (raw)

Wang Weijun weijun.wang at oracle.com
Wed Apr 30 14:03:54 UTC 2014

Florian

Just curious, how do you deal with a file like this

http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk9/dev/jdk/file/4e7f3aac979b/test/sun/security/krb5/ktab/HighestKvno.java

Is the byte array inside considered binary?

Thanks Max

On Apr 30, 2014, at 18:54, Florian Weimer <fweimer at redhat.com> wrote:

On 04/29/2014 02:35 PM, Alan Bateman wrote:

The other thing that came up previously is distributions that have a policy of not allowing binary files. If I'm not mistake then they are deleted by downstream patches, which in this case would lead to a test failure. Debian and Fedora are concerned with binary files which have closed source files. These are stripped when noticed. There is no indiscriminate deletion of binary files during the packaging process. The Debian packaging tools had a problem with shipping binary data in local changes, but that's history now. -- Florian Weimer / Red Hat Product Security Team

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