From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 31900 invoked by alias); 9 Sep 2004 21:26:41 -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 31886 invoked from network); 9 Sep 2004 21:26:39 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO takamaka.act-europe.fr) (142.179.108.108) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 9 Sep 2004 21:26:39 -0000 Received: by takamaka.act-europe.fr (Postfix, from userid 507) id DA79647D92; Thu, 9 Sep 2004 14:26:38 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 09 Sep 2004 21:26:00 -0000 From: Joel Brobecker To: Eli Zaretskii Cc: Andrew Cagney , gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: [patch] Deprecate XM_FILE and TM_FILE Message-ID: <20040909212638.GI5843@gnat.com> References: <413898FB.7080502@gnu.org> <01c49276$Blat.v2.2.2$c81daa00@zahav.net.il> <4139D06B.5060902@gnu.org> <01c4929c$Blat.v2.2.2$3333c200@zahav.net.il> <413A277E.3060700@gnu.org> <01c492ff$Blat.v2.2.2$4fec0480@zahav.net.il> <41407F45.2090401@gnu.org> <01c496a3$Blat.v2.2.2$8948c5e0@zahav.net.il> <4140BC4C.50003@gnu.org> <01c496b2$Blat.v2.2.2$22c509a0@zahav.net.il> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <01c496b2$Blat.v2.2.2$22c509a0@zahav.net.il> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-SW-Source: 2004-09/txt/msg00154.txt.bz2 > That might be so, but I've seen too many "Garbage collect FOO" > messages lately to know that, following every release, many deprecated > features get eliminated in patches treated as obvious, with no > discussion. As much as I find Andrew's methods sometimes too brutal for me, I have to recognize that I don't remember him deliberately breaking a port just because he wanted to remove something that has been deprecated. I think we can trust him in not doing so without discussing it beforehand. Also, I don't think Andrew is using the "obvious" rule here. The patches are nowhere near obvious, I agree. He's using the global maintainer priviledge. -- Joel