[csw-maintainers] [ITP] gdb 7.2

[Peter FELECAN]

Dagobert Michelsen <dam at opencsw.org> writes:

> Hi Peter,
>
> Am 04.01.2011 um 20:21 schrieb Peter FELECAN:
>> As nobody answered positively to my question "is somebody working on
>> gdb?" of December 20th, I declare the intent to package the new version
>> of gdb and consequently take over the package maintenanceship (the
>> current maintainer is retired).
>
> Sure, please go ahead. I tried to make an gdb 6.8, but it crashed quite
> often. Additionally, it may be advisable to use the (non-trivial!) patches
> from OpenSolaris for gdb, which are also listed in the gdb description
> in GAR:
>   http://cvs.opensolaris.org/source/xref/sfw/usr/src/cmd/gdb/

Thank you Dag. As I'm packaging 7.2 I will be very careful in applying
and/or adapting theses patches.

The Intent/Interest declaration is useful exactly for this kind of
stuff. Anyway, before declaring I made sure that I can deliver
something.

-- 
Peter