Changelog
gdb (7.7.1-1) unstable; urgency=medium
[ Samuel Bronson ]
* Switch to .xz for our ".orig" tarballs
* Imported Upstream version 7.7
- GDB 7.7 brings new targets, features and improvements, including:
* C++:
** GDB now implements the 'typeid' operator.
** Exception Catchpoints can now filter by type.
* Python scripting:
** Frame filters and frame decorators have been added.
** Temporary breakpoints are now supported.
** Line tables representation has been added.
** New attribute 'parent_type' for gdb.Field objects.
** gdb.Field objects can be used as subscripts on gdb.Value objects.
** New attribute 'name' for gdb.Type objects.
* New commands:
** show configuration
** catch rethrow
** info exceptions [REGEXP]
** remove-symbol-file [FILENAME | -a ADDRESS]
** maint check-psymtabs
** maint check-symtabs
** maint expand-symtabs
** maint set|show per-command [space | time | symtab]
* New options:
** set|show debug symfile off|on
** set|show print raw frame-arguments
** set|show remote trace-status-packet
** set|show debug nios2
** set|show range-stepping
** set|show startup-with-shell
** set|show code-cache
For all options that interpret 0 or -1 as meaning "unlimited",
the literal 'unlimited' can ot be used.
* New convenience variables/functions:
** $_exception
** $_exitsignal
** $_isvoid
* GDB/MI:
** All MI commands now accept an optional "--language" option.
** "undefined-command" error code provided in "^error" result
records when trying to run a non-existing command.
** New commands -catch-assert and -catch-exceptions
** New command -info-ada-exceptions
** New command -info-gdb-mi-command
** New command -dprintf-insert
** New command -trace-frame-collected
** -trace-save CTF (Common Trace Format) support.
** -data-list-register-values, -stack-list-locals, -stack-list-arguments
and -stack-list-variables optional "--skip-unavailable" option.
** -exec-run optional "--start" option.
* Remote Protocol:
** Target-assigned range stepping support.
GDBserver implements this feature on x86/x86_64 GNU/Linux targets.
** vCont new 'r' action.
** qXfer:libraries-svr4:read's annex used to pass argument list.
* New target configurations:
** Nios II ELF nios2*-*-elf
** Nios II GNU/Linux nios2*-*-linux
** Texas Instruments MSP430 msp430*-*-elf
* GDB Windows x64 unwinding data support.
* SystemTap SDT probes support on AArch64 GNU/Linux.
* The 'tsave' command now supports CTF (Common Trace Format).
* New script gcore, installed in $prefix/bin
* New script contrib/gdb-add-index.sh for adding .gdb_index sections
to binaries.
* Improve arm*-linux record/replay support.
* Removed support for a.out NetBSD and OpenBSD obsolete configurations.
ELF variants of these configurations are kept supported.
* The "set|show remotebaud" commands are deprecated. Use "show|show serial
baud" instead.
- For a complete list and more details on each item, please see the
NEWS file.
* Update patches for new upstream version:
- Drop man-page-args.patch and man-page-order.patch:
Manpages are dead to us now (not DFSG free), and the source is in
texinfo now anyway.
- Drop upstream-arm-catch-syscall.patch and
upstream-print_insn_rl78-workaround.patch:
Already applied upstream.
- Update linuxthreads_signal_handling.patch and
gdb-6.5-bz185337-resolve-tls-without-debuginfo-v2.patch
* d/gdb-minimal.manpages: Remove because manpages are dead to us
* d/rules:
- Update for the new release.
* Don't expect all tests to pass, they never do.
("make check" finally stopped lying?)
* Adjust for "gcore" getting its source renamed and getting installed
- Other improvements
* Install contrib/ in /usr/share/doc/gdb/
* Carry over more configure flags to secondary packages, so
e.g. gdb-multiarch can find it's message catalogs
- Nitpicks:
* Replace a $(findstring ...) call with $(filter ...)
(It's probably not all that likely that DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS would contain
an item with nocheck as a substring, but still ...)
* Use --disable-readline; we have our own ...
* d/control:
- Update Vcs-Git/Vcs-Browser URLs
[ Héctor Orón Martínez ]
* d/control.in, d/rules: add gdb-dbg package.
(closes: #696197)
* d/control.in: update Vcs-* references
* d/control.in: bump standards version, no changes required
* d/compat, d/control.in: bump dh compat to 9 to get build-id based
debug info paths
* d/p/ppc64le.diff: apply upstream patch for ppc64le support
* d/control.in: add ppc64el architecture
- Thanks Frédéric Bonnard for report
(closes: #744204)
* d/control.in: gdb-minimal provides gdb
(closes: #588775)
* d/control.in: gdb recommends gdbserver
(closes: #675623)
* Fix gdb: confusing error message "$HOME/pid: No such file or directory"
(closes: #712671)
* d/p/gdb-glibc-vdso-workaround.patch:
- Work around PR libc/13097 "linux-vdso.so.1"
(closes: #738702)
* d/rules: do not misuse the version field to encode the distro name
(closes: #738331)
* d/copyright: update file to conform DEP5.
[ Samuel Bronson ]
* d/control.in: Misc fixes, like not building an
"Architecture: all".-dbg package
* d/control: Regenerate after above changes ...
* d/rules: Enable CTF support through babeltrace
* d/rules: Be more specific about which features to build with
* d/control.in, d/control: Drop B-D on libbz2-dev; gdb doesn't want it
* debian/gdbserver.install: Don't install an empty gdbserver manpage either.
* d/watch, d/upstream-signing-key.pgp: Verify sigs; remove dh_make stuff
* d/control.in, d/control: Make gdb and gdb-minimal conflict as policy says
* d/include-binary-files: Appease dpkg-source about the upstream key ...
* d/patches/python-config.patch: Add header, fix typo pointed out upstream
* d/sanitize-gdb.sh: stop filtering gdb-doc, drop all manpages from gdb
* Imported Upstream version 7.7.1
- GDB 7.7.1 provides the following fixes and improvements to GDB 7.7:
* PR win32/14018 (pc register not available error on Windows)
* PR python/16547 (GDB crashing on gdb.python/py-linetable.exp)
* PR build/16550 (64-bit GDB doesn't build on Solaris)
* PR gdb/16626 (auto-load regression: gdb uses wrong file to test safety)
* PR breakpoints/16292 (GDB oversteps a range in some cases.)
* PR gdb/16575 (stale breakpoint instructions in the code cache)
* PR gdb/16696 (AIX 32-bit cores, high section addresses)
* PR gdb/16721 (Erroneous backtrace on AVR)
* PR gdb/16832 (Erroneous backtrace on avrxmega architectures)
* PR build/16873 (GDB 7.7 does not build with GCC 4.9)
(Closes: #746855)
-- Hector Oron <email address hidden> Sat, 31 May 2014 11:12:46 +0200
