From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 21571 invoked by alias); 24 Jul 2006 15:50:04 -0000 Received: (qmail 21555 invoked by uid 22791); 24 Jul 2006 15:50:03 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from nevyn.them.org (HELO nevyn.them.org) (66.93.172.17) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31.1) with ESMTP; Mon, 24 Jul 2006 15:50:01 +0000 Received: from drow by nevyn.them.org with local (Exim 4.54) id 1G52gx-0001sc-7C; Mon, 24 Jul 2006 11:49:59 -0400 Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2006 15:50:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: gdb-patches@sourceware.org, cgf-gdb-patches@sourceware.org Subject: Re: [RFC] Add expat to the GDB sources Message-ID: <20060724154959.GA7043@nevyn.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: gdb-patches@sourceware.org, cgf-gdb-patches@sourceware.org References: <20060718134048.GA15685@nevyn.them.org> <20060723224032.GA5168@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> <200607232318.k6NNIV28004376@elgar.sibelius.xs4all.nl> <20060724062004.GB12362@adacore.com> <20060724153017.GG15537@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060724153017.GG15537@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11+cvs20060403 X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2006-07/txt/msg00335.txt.bz2 On Mon, Jul 24, 2006 at 11:30:17AM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: > You can make similar statements about any of the libraries which gdb > uses, like ncurses or glibc. And, you can flip it around, too. Distros > are apt to fix bugs when they are detected. Are we going to have someone > scanning bugtraq, the expat web site, and the > Fedora/Gentoo/Ubuntu/Debian web sites looking for updates? For the record, Debian has a strict policy against this sort of inclusion. We already do not use the readline shipped with GDB. I do not plan to use GDB's expat, either, if it ends up included. > >So even thought we should make a decision on a case by case basis, > >I would be inclined in this case to include libexpat. I don't think > >we're actually doing a fork. I think it's like readline: we try to > >push the patch to the authors first before putting it in our copy. > > But readline has been a fork for a long time and, since it is statically Actually, at my latest merge the local changes to readline were fairly small. I believe most of them were for either DJGPP or Cygwin. > There is also the meta issue here of assuming that gdb owns the 'src' > directory and has the right to put things there without discussion with > the other projects who use the directory. IMO, the polite thing to do is > to mention this to the other projects. I can if you want, but (A) there's no overall src mailing list, despite at least one attempt to make one, and (B) it won't get in anyone else's way, so I'm not sure why. But I'll wait and see how this discussion progresses, first. -- Daniel Jacobowitz CodeSourcery