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From: Mark Kettenis <mark.kettenis@xs4all.nl>
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> Date: Sun, 15 Dec 2013 09:04:09 -0800
> From: Ben Longbons <brlongbons@gmail.com>
> 
> Personally, I don't get why people who are using long-term "stable"
> releases expect to be able to use the latest and greatest version of
> anything. If you only need to *use* gdb, you can just stick to older
> versions (including 7.7) which are still fully-featured releases.

Personally I don't get why we should listen to someone who never ever
contributed a single patch to GDB.  Stop wasting our time.  Come back
after you've actually contributed some actual code to GDB.

Cheers,

Mark