Re: [rfa/doco] PROBLEMS: add regressions since gdb 6.0

Eli Zaretskii
2004-03-18T16:52:50Z

> Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2004 11:04:54 -0500
> From: Andrew Cagney <cagney@gnu.org>
>
> Er, we already have a repostory of known bugs, it's called the bug
> database. Why duplicate the content and tracking effort?

As Michael points out, and I concur, many, if not most, bugs stored
in the bug database are of no interest to users. They also don't
tell how to work around them. This is IMHO valuable information for
any GDB user who bumps into a bug.

In addition, PROBLEMS is much more accessible than the bug database,
as it is on the user's local disk.

> PROBLEMS should draw the users attention to late breaking and immediate
> issues that will hurt them (gdb doesn't build, this broke going from the
> previous release). A bug already present in the previous release
> _isn't_ new news.

You assume that GDB users download and build every release. This
isn't necessarily so: what about someone who is upgrading from
version 5.1.1 to v6.0?

> Listing every single long standing nit in the PROBLEMS file just adds
> unnecessary noise.

I don't agree that it's noise. If we put there only important
user-visible bugs, I think the signal to noise ratio would be high
enough to make the file useful.