Re: One month away from GDB 8.0 branching

[Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>]

> > I created a PR for this issue :
> > https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=21169
> >
> > I've marked it Target Milestone 8.0
> >
> 
> I prefer to fixing this issue in 8.0 too, but to be clear, this is a
> 7.11 -> 7.12 regression.
> We changed GDBserver to single step over breakpoint on July 2016, but
> 7.12 was released on Oct 2016.

That's a very useful piece of information. Thanks, Yao.

Normally, the fact that this isn't a regression is a strong
indicator that we don't need to block a release pending resolution.
In this particular case, given the fairly bad effect on the debugging
session, and the fact that the regression was introduced in our last
branch, I propose a compromise. We leave it like that for now, and
will potentially delay the 8.0 release a bit waiting for the fix,
provided that some one is working on it, and tells us he is close
to having it. And, come release time, if we the fix is delayed
to much, or there isn't any news about it, we'll set change
the target milestone to 8.0.1 and try the same approach (wait a bit
if there are chances we might get the fix soon).

Does this sound OK?

-- 
Joel