From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 7816 invoked by alias); 23 Jun 2007 00:58:38 -0000 Received: (qmail 7808 invoked by uid 22791); 23 Jun 2007 00:58:38 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from viper.snap.net.nz (HELO viper.snap.net.nz) (202.37.101.8) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Sat, 23 Jun 2007 00:58:35 +0000 Received: from kahikatea.snap.net.nz (51.60.255.123.dynamic.snap.net.nz [123.255.60.51]) by viper.snap.net.nz (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD77D3D95C5; Sat, 23 Jun 2007 12:58:32 +1200 (NZST) Received: by kahikatea.snap.net.nz (Postfix, from userid 1000) id C823F8FBF6; Sat, 23 Jun 2007 12:58:25 +1200 (NZST) From: Nick Roberts MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <18044.28720.838572.299857@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2007 00:58:00 -0000 To: Joel Brobecker Cc: gdb@sourceware.org Subject: Re: DELAYED: GDB 6.7 branch creation scheduled June 25th In-Reply-To: <20070623003622.GP18706@adacore.com> References: <20070608061902.GP3761@adacore.com> <20070621181530.GC12173@adacore.com> <18042.61938.458913.398215@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> <20070622014101.GC18706@adacore.com> <18043.30976.871935.736190@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> <20070622161752.GL18706@adacore.com> <18044.25556.843471.837917@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> <20070623003622.GP18706@adacore.com> X-Mailer: VM 7.19 under Emacs 22.1.50.4 X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2007-06/txt/msg00206.txt.bz2 > > You've not really answered my question but the prerogative is yours, of > > course. > > Can you ask your question again? I probably didn't understand what > you were asking. It's just the one that I left in the the message "So where's the gain in branching early?" but perhaps Stan Shebs answered it. > > Once the branch is made, I might miss the announcement for the > > imminent release, so I would only ask that the bug I have reported: > > As of now, the release is scheduled one month after branching. > > > http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb/2007-06/msg00022.html > > > > is indeed fixed before the release. > > You have to understand that this can not be guarantied by me. You're the release manager so presumably you can insist on certain things being done before a release is made. > I could > be underestimating the severity of the problem, but this issue hardly > seems blocking. It breaks existing use of Gdb in Emacs 22.1. > If you or anyone has a plan for fixing this issue > and promises to propose a patch within a reasonable timeframe (let's > say 2 weeks), then we can consider delaying the release a bit. My plan would be just revert the change and I think Jan Kratochvil has agreed with this. AFAICS there's no reason why this would delay the release. > Otherwise, I think we should proceed, and just have this particular > issue documented as a known problem. It's not just a bug but a regression. I don't think breaking a feature and then documenting it as a known problem is really an acceptable policy. -- Nick http://www.inet.net.nz/~nickrob