Re: eliminate deprecated_insert_raw_breakpoint. what's left.

Ulrich Weigand
2014-09-10T16:36:02Z

Joel Brobecker wrote:

> So let's discuss the new obsoleting procedure, so we can document it:
>
> . I think that the first 4 steps (post email on gdb@, wait a week,
> then on gdb-announce, wait another week) are fine. Anyone thinks
> we should go straight to gdb-announce?
>
> My thinking is that people interested in maintaining a port
> with enough skills to do so are likely to already be on gdb@,
> so we can avoid sending an extra mail to gdb-announce. But
> the traffic on gdb-announce being very low, and the frequency
> at which we deprecate targets being fairly small as well,
> I wouldn't object to a simpler procedure where we email
> gdb-announce directly.
>
> . Remove steps 5 & 6 that mark the code as obsolete, only keeping
> the last test, which removes the code. I'd add a note to add
> a NEWS entry.

Sounds all good to me.

Bye,
Ulrich

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