Re: [patch] gdb.c++/local.exp: add pr numbers

Tom Tromey
2002-04-14T15:22:02Z

>>>>> "Dan" == Daniel Berlin <dberlin@dberlin.org> writes:

Dan> However, this *is* actually going to be annoying in the initial
Dan> import, since it means that if they share the same bugzilla
Dan> system (which only makes sense), i'll have to remap gdb's bug
Dan> numbers to a new range (IE add 10000 to them. There are almost
Dan> exactly 7000 gcc bug reports, and not going to be 3000 more
Dan> before we switch)

When we imported the libgcj Gnats database into the gcc database, we
had to renumber. We just added a comment to every PR: "Previously PR
libgcj/OLD-NUMBER". In the few situations where I've needed to look
up a PR by its old number, this has let me do it easily.

Tom