No entry in Bugzilla for binary compatibility?

[Bryce McKinlay]

On Oct 22, 2003, at 8:52 AM, Andrew Haley wrote:

> Tom Tromey writes:
>>
>> One nice thing about bugzilla is that we can create a master bug for
>> a multi-part feature like this, and then make individual bugs for the
>> parts, which are dependencies of the main bug.  This makes tracking
>> things a little clearer.
>
> Well, gcc is now in the "bug fixes only" stage, so I guess I need a
> bug.  And failure to comply with Chapter 13 is certainly a bug.

For Java we have traditionally interpreted the GCC development stages 
somewhat loosely (so long as we don't touch the rest of the compiler, 
of course).

> I don't know how to create a master bug, though.

Just create a normal bug, then create additional bugs for the 
"sub-parts" and add them to the master bug as dependencies.

Regards

Bryce.