Bug 113190 - Alert not to report bugs against EOL releases
Summary: Alert not to report bugs against EOL releases
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: gcc
Classification: Unclassified
Component: other (show other bugs)
Version: unknown
: P3 enhancement
Target Milestone: ---
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Keywords: documentation
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Reported: 2024-01-01 14:55 UTC by Xi Ruoyao
Modified: 2024-01-08 14:58 UTC (History)
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Last reconfirmed: 2024-01-03 00:00:00

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Description Xi Ruoyao 2024-01-01 14:55:14 UTC 
Let's add something into the red banner of the "new bug" page like

"Try to reproduce the bug with one of the supported releases listed on https://gcc.gnu.org/.  If the bug only reproduces with releases no longer supported, it will be closed as WONTFIX."
Comment 1 Eyal Rozenberg 2024-01-01 15:01:05 UTC 
Fair enough, but - also add:

1. A link to some page with guidelines on configuring older GCC releases for maximum likelyhood of the build succeeding, on different OS distributions.

2. A link to the gcc-help mailing list page, or some other venue where one might ask about build trouble with such releases
Comment 2 Andrew Pinski 2024-01-03 01:55:47 UTC 
I had thought this was documented on https://gcc.gnu.org/bugs/ but I was wrong.

We do have:
```
Duplicate bug reports, or reports of bugs already fixed in the development tree, especially those that have already been reported as fixed last week :-)
```

On https://gcc.gnu.org/bugs/ but that is more geared towards people using the trunk rather than releases.
Comment 3 Richard Biener 2024-01-08 14:24:15 UTC 
The issue is we allow "unknown" as Version (we have a web component and share a bugzilla instance with classpath), so disabling versions for new bug reporting which is a thing doesn't really help.