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* Question about gdb bugfix backpatch policy
@ 2022-05-25  1:41 Japin Li
  2022-05-25  2:02 ` Joel Brobecker
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Japin Li @ 2022-05-25  1:41 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: gdb


Hi all,

Recently, I have a segfault using GDB 8.1.1. After search, I found it [1] fixed
in later version (such as GDB 12.1).  I want to know why this doestn't backpatch
to where it occurs?

Thanks in advance!

[1] https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23613

-- 
Regrads,
Japin Li.


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* Re: Question about gdb bugfix backpatch policy
  2022-05-25  1:41 Question about gdb bugfix backpatch policy Japin Li
@ 2022-05-25  2:02 ` Joel Brobecker
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Joel Brobecker @ 2022-05-25  2:02 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Japin Li via Gdb; +Cc: Joel Brobecker

Hello,

> Recently, I have a segfault using GDB 8.1.1. After search, I found it
> [1] fixed in later version (such as GDB 12.1).  I want to know why
> this doestn't backpatch to where it occurs?
> 
> [1] https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23613

In the GDB project, we only maintain 1 active release branch
(in addition to our main development branch). When we make fixes,
we normally make the fix on the main development branch first,
and then a selection of those patches, based on how important
and safe they are, are also backported to the one active release
branch.

In this case, the GDB 8.1 release branch was closed by the time
this fix was pushed. It was therefore to late to even consider
including it in 8.1.1.

-- 
Joel

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