From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 12853 invoked by alias); 18 Mar 2004 16:52:50 -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 12841 invoked from network); 18 Mar 2004 16:52:48 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO aragorn.inter.net.il) (192.114.186.23) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 18 Mar 2004 16:52:48 -0000 Received: from zaretski ([80.230.158.204]) by aragorn.inter.net.il (MOS 3.4.5-GR) with ESMTP id CPR56976; Thu, 18 Mar 2004 18:52:40 +0200 (IST) Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2004 00:09:00 -0000 From: "Eli Zaretskii" To: Andrew Cagney Message-ID: <6654-Thu18Mar2004185016+0200-eliz@elta.co.il> CC: mec.gnu@mindspring.com, gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com In-reply-to: <4059C8A6.1020504@gnu.org> (message from Andrew Cagney on Thu, 18 Mar 2004 11:04:54 -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> <4059C8A6.1020504@gnu.org> X-SW-Source: 2004-03/txt/msg00429.txt.bz2 Message-ID: <20040319000900.SjIB1brxsxIZbtA1pAfUmJYXaHWu0VbwNkw6ohv5UoQ@z> > Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2004 11:04:54 -0500 > From: Andrew Cagney > > 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.