Re: Backport 037e8112b97 for the 10.x branch

[Emil Velikov <emil.l.velikov@gmail.com>]

On Fri, 21 May 2021 at 21:01, Joel Brobecker <brobecke@adacore.com> wrote:
>
> > > We are not planning on doing another 10.x release, so would that
> > > still be useful for you to do?
> > >
> > Yes, it would.
> >
> > > Note that we're started the process of preparing for the GDB 11.1
> > > release. It's really hard to predict how long it's going to take
> > > before we release, considering that we are a volunteer project,
> > > but I'm hoping a couple of months.
> > >
> > Realising that I'm pushing my luck, I would warmly encourage you to do
> > another 10.x release.
> > Partially due to the severity of the bug - anything built with -m32 is
> > affected - and partially due to how wide-spread the 10.x series is.
> >
> > >From a casual look at repology [1] the following distributions are
> > affected and a bunch of them will be "stuck" with the 10.x series.
> > Thus I do think it will be of great benefit in having another 10.x
> > with said fix - even if only this patch is included.
> >
> > List of distributions using GDB 10.x alongside 5.9+ kernel - Alpine,
> > Arch, Debian testing, Fedora 33&34, openSUSE Leap 15.x, Ubuntu 21.04
> > ... and their respective derivatives.
> >
> > Thanks for your time and dedication improving GDB.
>
> Typically, Linux distributions build a modified version of GDB,
> with a number of addition patches. So, while I'm open to the idea
> of creating another corrective release in general, I'm not certain
> we have a sufficiently strong reason in this case. If there is
> a stronger push, perhaps...
>
> In the meantime, if you'd like, you can certainly ask on the gdb-patches
> mailing-list for permission to backport this patch to the gdb-10-branch.
> If given, before you can backport it, you'll need to create a GDB PR
> in bugzilla (https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/) so as to document this
> issue, and then ammend the commit message to include that PR number,
> e.g. like this commit:
>
>     | gdb/ChangeLog:
>     |
>     |         PR gdb/27614
>     |         * contrib/gdb-add-index.sh: Fix when called with a symlink as an
>     |         argument.
>
> We'll also need to ask someone to create a 10.3 milestone and
> set the Target Milestone field to that new milestone.
>
> The PR is there to help us track precisely what changes went in
> the various corrective releases, and doing the above is part of
> our procedures for backporting changes to those corrective releases.
>
Is this above process documented and accessbile from the GDB website somewhere?
IMHO it is something which should be dead easy to find - see for
example what we've done for mesa.

Thanks for the instructions Joel, will get back to this later in the week.
-Emil

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=mesa+stable+patch+backport