From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 29599 invoked by alias); 24 Jul 2006 21:58:00 -0000 Received: (qmail 29588 invoked by uid 22791); 24 Jul 2006 21:58:00 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from sibelius.xs4all.nl (HELO sibelius.xs4all.nl) (82.92.89.47) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Mon, 24 Jul 2006 21:57:58 +0000 Received: from elgar.sibelius.xs4all.nl (root@elgar.sibelius.xs4all.nl [192.168.0.2]) by sibelius.xs4all.nl (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k6OLvrFH006923; Mon, 24 Jul 2006 23:57:53 +0200 (CEST) Received: from elgar.sibelius.xs4all.nl (kettenis@localhost.sibelius.xs4all.nl [127.0.0.1]) by elgar.sibelius.xs4all.nl (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k6OLvqBj030532; Mon, 24 Jul 2006 23:57:52 +0200 (CEST) Received: (from kettenis@localhost) by elgar.sibelius.xs4all.nl (8.13.6/8.13.6/Submit) id k6OLvqei026186; Mon, 24 Jul 2006 23:57:52 +0200 (CEST) Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2006 21:58:00 -0000 Message-Id: <200607242157.k6OLvqei026186@elgar.sibelius.xs4all.nl> From: Mark Kettenis To: cgf-gdb-patches@sourceware.org CC: gdb-patches@sourceware.org In-reply-to: <20060724163700.GB17430@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> (message from Christopher Faylor on Mon, 24 Jul 2006 12:37:00 -0400) Subject: Re: [RFC] Add expat to the GDB sources 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> <20060724154959.GA7043@nevyn.them.org> <20060724163700.GB17430@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> 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/msg00368.txt.bz2 > Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2006 12:37:00 -0400 > From: Christopher Faylor > > On Mon, Jul 24, 2006 at 11:49:59AM -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > >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. > > Huh. Interesting. Good for Debian. We do something similar on OpenBSD. For us this works pretty well, because we ship both gdb and readline as part of the base system, where we have complete control over the version of gdb and readline that we ship, and do a lot of testing for the specific test setup chosen. That's a completely different situation from shipping a .tar.gz on ftp.gnu.org that people will try to build on a very wide variety of systems out there.