From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 20467 invoked by alias); 18 Mar 2004 06:16:58 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 20459 invoked from network); 18 Mar 2004 06:16:57 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO monty-python.gnu.org) (199.232.76.173) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 18 Mar 2004 06:16:57 -0000 Received: from [207.232.27.5] (helo=WST0054) by monty-python.gnu.org with asmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1B3qox-0002AN-9R; Thu, 18 Mar 2004 01:15:59 -0500 Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2004 00:09:00 -0000 Message-ID: From: Eli Zaretskii To: Andrew Cagney CC: mec.gnu@mindspring.com,gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com In-reply-to: <4058E1C6.70605@gnu.org> (message from Andrew Cagney on Wed, 17 Mar 2004 18:39:50 -0500) Subject: Re: [rfa/doco] PROBLEMS: add regressions since gdb 6.0 Reply-to: Eli Zaretskii References: <20040317225423.E42474B104@berman.michael-chastain.com> <4058E1C6.70605@gnu.org> X-SW-Source: 2004-03/txt/msg00421.txt.bz2 Message-ID: <20040319000900.INd-uyaHxe6krNzmDClG2pA5FJG8gDAraEn-SBz17Ug@z> > Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 18:39:50 -0500 > From: Andrew Cagney > > NEWS contains a history of GDB, PROBLEMS does not. > > PROBLEMS is there to identify late breaking screwups and other issues in > just _this_ release. Not necessarily. It depends on what purpose we want PROBLEMS to serve. One way of looking at PROBLEMS is as a repository of bugs that the GDB team already knows about, and that users therefore should not report as new bugs. PROBLEMS can also mention work-arounds, so that users who bump into them can do whatever they need even though the bug isn't fixed yet. If viewed like that, it would make sense for PROBLEMS to include all the bugs that are still not fixed, even if they date back to version 0.0. Bugs that are solved should indeed be deleted from PROBLEMS. (Btw, if GDB still has bugs known since v0.0, it would say something quite unflattering about GDB maintenance, and that alone is IMHO a reason good enough to keep old unsolved bugs on record.)