Backporting minor fix to older gdb releases

[Joel Brobecker]

FWIW, there is no real policy that I know of.

We have been known to accept patches on release branches past the .2
release. It's been very rare, though. In all cases, the push was done
with the understanding that there would likely not be another official
release off that branch, so that was purely for the benefit of people
who wanted to build from the HEAD of a release branch rather than from
an official release.

Whether we should be doing it in this case, I don't have a strong
opinion. I think Andrew is making good points, and I'm wondering
whether it will actually serve anyone if we backport the patches.
On the other hand, are the patches extra safe? If they are, perhaps
in the spirit of not standing in the way of someone willing to make
it better for others...

-- 
Joel