Re: [heads up] GDB 11.2 "respin" release next weekend (Jan 15-16)

[Aaron Merey <amerey@redhat.com>]

On Wed, Jan 12, 2022 at 10:58 PM Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com> wrote:
> With that said, unless the patch you are proposing has been deployed
> and in real-world use for a while, my experience tells me that it is
> a really risky proposition to be pushing a patch like that at the very
> last minute. On the surface, the patch looks OK, and it's contained
> within the download side of debuginfod, but we could imagine a bug
> in this patch causing debuginfod downloads to crash, thus rendering
> the entire feature no longer usable. When we are in the last stretches
> of the preparation of a release which is going to be the last release
> from this branch, unless the fix is absolutely critical or obviously
> safe, my personal approach has been to remember that the .2 release
> is first and foremost a corrective release. Just my 2 cents.

On Thu, Jan 13, 2022 at 5:49 AM Andrew Burgess <aburgess@redhat.com> wrote:
> I agree with Joel, this isn't a bug fix, so I don't think it's
> appropriate to include in 11.2.

Fair points. To be safe let's not rush my patch then.

Thanks,
Aaron