Re: --with-pkgversion and --with-bugurl support for GDB

Eli Zaretskii
2008-05-20T03:26:54Z

> Date: Mon, 19 May 2008 19:50:42 +0000 (UTC)
> From: "Joseph S. Myers" <joseph@codesourcery.com>
> cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
>
> I do not see any mention of info-gdb or help-gdb at
> <http://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/mailing-lists/>, so I think that part of
> the information is obsolete.

The right place to check whether these lists exist is
http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/. In any case, the text that
referred to these two said NOT to use them.

> It also appears that, in practice, little
> use is made of bug-gdb and the bug database is the recommended approach.
> Thus, it seems to me that the appropriate default is to refer to whatever
> BUGURL is, which by default is the web page where further information is
> present about information to put in bug reports, and which may be
> configured by any distributor to point to their own bug database. Should
> we wish to document alternative methods for reporting bugs in FSF GDB, or
> to add information or caveats about those methods, I think the right
> approach is to add the information to that web page (GCC for example has a
> very extensive web page with instructions at
> <http://gcc.gnu.org/bugs.html>).

Sorry, I don't agree. I think the manual should have clear
instructions on how to report bugs efficiently. I don't like to ask
users to study Web pages to know that when they are already reading
documentation.

I don't mind removing obsolete information, but please either update
the rest to talk about bug-gdb and gdb@sources.redhat.com, or leave it
intact and I will get to updating it when I have time.

Thanks.