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

[Michael Elizabeth Chastain <mec@shout.net>]

Daniel Berlin writes:

  1. Bugzilla supports multiple products by default, in a single database.
  (Each product can itself, have multiple components, as well)
  2. Bug ids are unique within a given bugzilla database.

Ah.  Ok.  So this covers the case that I care about the most, which is
referring to gcc bugs.  As far as I know, gcc (broadly speaking, the
whole "gnu compiler collection") are the only Free Software compilers
supported by gdb.  Although maybe my knowledge is limited?

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

So gnats bug #277 is going to become bugzilla bug #10277, for instance?

Michael C