Re: [RFC] Add expat to the GDB sources

Mark Kettenis
2006-07-24T21:58:00Z

> Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2006 12:37:00 -0400
> From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-gdb-patches@sourceware.org>
>
> 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.