Question about gdb bugfix backpatch policy

[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