From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 14666 invoked by alias); 10 Sep 2014 16:36:02 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org Received: (qmail 14651 invoked by uid 89); 10 Sep 2014 16:36:02 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-3.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,MSGID_FROM_MTA_HEADER,RP_MATCHES_RCVD,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: e06smtp13.uk.ibm.com Received: from e06smtp13.uk.ibm.com (HELO e06smtp13.uk.ibm.com) (195.75.94.109) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES256-SHA encrypted) ESMTPS; Wed, 10 Sep 2014 16:36:01 +0000 Received: from /spool/local by e06smtp13.uk.ibm.com with IBM ESMTP SMTP Gateway: Authorized Use Only! Violators will be prosecuted for from ; Wed, 10 Sep 2014 17:35:57 +0100 Received: from d06dlp02.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com (9.149.20.14) by e06smtp13.uk.ibm.com (192.168.101.143) with IBM ESMTP SMTP Gateway: Authorized Use Only! Violators will be prosecuted; Wed, 10 Sep 2014 17:35:56 +0100 Received: from b06cxnps4075.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com (d06relay12.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com [9.149.109.197]) by d06dlp02.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 42029219005C for ; Wed, 10 Sep 2014 17:35:36 +0100 (BST) Received: from d06av02.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com (d06av02.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com [9.149.37.228]) by b06cxnps4075.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com (8.14.9/8.14.9/NCO v10.0) with ESMTP id s8AGZtY743515966 for ; Wed, 10 Sep 2014 16:35:55 GMT Received: from d06av02.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by d06av02.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com (8.14.4/8.14.4/NCO v10.0 AVout) with ESMTP id s8AGZsLk010552 for ; Wed, 10 Sep 2014 10:35:55 -0600 Received: from tuxmaker.boeblingen.de.ibm.com (tuxmaker.boeblingen.de.ibm.com [9.152.85.9]) by d06av02.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com (8.14.4/8.14.4/NCO v10.0 AVin) with SMTP id s8AGZrEC010511; Wed, 10 Sep 2014 10:35:53 -0600 Message-Id: <201409101635.s8AGZrEC010511@d06av02.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com> Received: by tuxmaker.boeblingen.de.ibm.com (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Wed, 10 Sep 2014 18:35:53 +0200 Subject: Re: eliminate deprecated_insert_raw_breakpoint. what's left. To: brobecker@adacore.com (Joel Brobecker) Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2014 16:36:00 -0000 From: "Ulrich Weigand" Cc: palves@redhat.com (Pedro Alves), gdb-patches@sourceware.org (GDB Patches) In-Reply-To: <20140910155028.GQ28404@adacore.com> from "Joel Brobecker" at Sep 10, 2014 08:50:28 AM MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-TM-AS-MML: disable X-Content-Scanned: Fidelis XPS MAILER x-cbid: 14091016-2966-0000-0000-000001160556 X-SW-Source: 2014-09/txt/msg00334.txt.bz2 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 -- Dr. Ulrich Weigand GNU/Linux compilers and toolchain Ulrich.Weigand@de.ibm.com