Re: 3 weeks to GDB 7.9.1 release?

[Doug Evans <dje@google.com>]

On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 10:14 AM, Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com> wrote:
>>   Would the patch to gdb/p-exp.y that fixes issue PR 127815
>> https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=17815
>>
>> be acceptable without the testsuite change?
>>
>>   This patch was accepted recently by Doug, and committed to trunk.
>> https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2015-04/msg00735.html
>>
>> The patch [part 1/3] itself is at:
>> https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2015-02/msg00111.html
>>
>> Or would the application of the three parts of the patch be more acceptable?
>> The two other parts are at:
>> https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2015-02/msg00112.html
>> and
>> https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2015-02/msg00113.html
>
> It's mostly your's and Doug's decision. The general idea is to
> only take patches that are safe and fix an important issue. But
> if it's only affecting Pascal, then we can be a little more
> relaxed about it.

Agreed.
I think this and the tests can go into the branch.

> Regarding the testsuite patches, since they cannot harm the debugger,
> they should be part of the set being considered for inclusion in
> the gdb-7.9-branch.
>
> If the decision is to include the patch, please remember to update
> the wiki page as well!
>
> --
> Joel