Re: [PATCH] change bug url to https in gdb --help

Jonny Grant
2020-06-10T13:12:48Z

On 30/05/2020 16:26, Simon Marchi wrote:
> On 2020-05-29 7:45 p.m., Jonny Grant wrote:
>> Many thanks Christian
>>
>> Will send to gdb-patches now with the ChangeLog.
>>
>> Unfortunately my Ubuntu LTS git is stuck on 2.17.1 without the git-send-email command for the moment. I'll paste in an
>> email to allow better comments.
>
> It's been available for ages, it's not a matter of old git. It's just that it's
> packaged separately:
>
> https://packages.ubuntu.com/bionic/git-email
>
> The packages.ubuntu.com interface (derived from packages.debian.org) is handy to
> find which package provides a given file. For example to find that the git-email
> package provides the git-send-email file:
>
> https://packages.ubuntu.com/search?suite=bionic&arch=amd64&mode=exactfilename&searchon=contents&keywords=git-send-email
>
> Alternatively, the `apt-file` package gives you the same functionality locally.
>
> Simon

Spent some time trying to get git send-email set up with gmail SMTP, but ran out of time, and didn't want to put my password in a file on on command line. In the end I just followed the guide https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/email-clients.html#thunderbird-gui

I've sent through to gdb-patches, fingers-crossed
Jonny