From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 26045 invoked by alias); 20 May 2008 03:26:54 -0000 Received: (qmail 26036 invoked by uid 22791); 20 May 2008 03:26:53 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mtaout5.012.net.il (HELO mtaout5.012.net.il) (84.95.2.13) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Tue, 20 May 2008 03:26:25 +0000 Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([80.230.41.128]) by i_mtaout5.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2004.12) with ESMTPA id <0K15001TTE7M9TV1@i_mtaout5.012.net.il> for gdb-patches@sourceware.org; Tue, 20 May 2008 06:40:34 +0300 (IDT) Date: Tue, 20 May 2008 15:25:00 -0000 From: Eli Zaretskii Subject: Re: --with-pkgversion and --with-bugurl support for GDB In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il To: "Joseph S. Myers" Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org Reply-to: Eli Zaretskii Message-id: References: X-IsSubscribed: yes 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 X-SW-Source: 2008-05/txt/msg00587.txt.bz2 > Date: Mon, 19 May 2008 19:50:42 +0000 (UTC) > From: "Joseph S. Myers" > cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org > > I do not see any mention of info-gdb or help-gdb at > , 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 the information is obsolete.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 > ). 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.