Re: ready for the GDB 17.2 corrective release?

[Andrew Burgess <aburgess@redhat.com>]

Tom de Vries <tdevries@suse.de> writes:

> On 4/20/26 8:32 PM, Joel Brobecker wrote:
>> Hi Tom,
>> 
>>> I'd like to nominate PR31449 [1] and PR33794 [2].  They're both crashes that
>>> happen when querying the user about enabling debuginfod while enabling TUI.
>>>
>>> I've submitted low-risk patches for both PRs (
>>> https://sourceware.org/pipermail/gdb-patches/2026-April/226551.html ).
>>>
>>> I'm not sure if the PRs are severe enough to block the release for: crashes
>>> are serious, but the likelihood that such a crash will trigger is not high,
>>> I think, which is probably why we have lived with it, probably since the
>>> query was introduced in 2021.
>>>
>>> But the fact that low-risk patches are available might be reason enough to
>>> consider including them.
>> 
>> Thanks for pointing those two PRs out. Let's start by marking them as
>> targetting 17.2 for the time being, so we don't forget about them.
>> 
>> How soon do you anticipate you'll be able to have those changes pushed?
>
> Well, they're waiting for review.

I'll try to look at these either today, or Thu/Fri this week.  If
someone else wants to look first, then feel free :)

Thanks,
Andrew