From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 26001 invoked by alias); 12 Aug 2003 15:21:25 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 25993 invoked from network); 12 Aug 2003 15:21:25 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO localhost.redhat.com) (207.219.125.131) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 12 Aug 2003 15:21:25 -0000 Received: from redhat.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E3EF72B7F; Tue, 12 Aug 2003 11:21:16 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3F3905EC.6050205@redhat.com> Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2003 15:21:00 -0000 From: Andrew Cagney User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; NetBSD macppc; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20030223 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ben Elliston Cc: Nick Clifton , gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: DejaGnu merge References: <87znif8p81.fsf@sashimi.wasabisystems.com> <87fzk75cnm.fsf@sashimi.wasabisystems.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2003-08/txt/msg00193.txt.bz2 > Hi Nick > > >> I assume that you mean the master sources on Savannah ? > > > Yes. > > >> The most important thing will be to make sure that the test harness >> still works after the merge. > > > In hindsight, I think it would be best for the son-of-devo tree to > adopt a policy of only using well-tested DejaGnu releases. In that > case, I will just import any missing patches from src/dejagnu. `Adopt a policy of only using well-tested dejagnu releases'? The current src/dejagnu is based on a release + a set of specific up-stream approved patches (namely KFAIL). The expectation, consistent with readline, is that at iregular intervals, a new release would be merged in allowing the number of upstream patches to be redused. Andrew