Control: severity -1 wishlist On Sunday, December 26 2021, Russell Coker wrote:
> Below are the 15 lines of output from gdb in it's normal mode of operation > before it does anything related to it's operation. The first line is useful > as a screen-cap will contain the version which may affect the result. The > next 5 lines are useless. The fact that it's configured as x86_64-linux-gnu > could fit on the same line as the version without breaking 80 characters. > The rest could be covered by the help sectiom. > > While this is a minor issue it is important as screenshots of gdb output are > often used in situations where getting more information is difficult. If > there were 13 lines less useless stuff that would mean 13 lines more other > data related to the debugging session such as previous runs of the same > program. This change would be useful not just to people who run gdb but > also people who receive screenshots of it. This request/wishlist should be taken upstream, IMO. It is highly unlikely that Debian will deviate from the default here; no other distro does that. Bear in mind a few things, though: 1) The GNU project requires that interactive programs print an excerpt containing license text whenever they are invoked. Other GNU programs follow this convention as well (GNU guile and GNU poke, for example). I don't see GDB changing this anytime soon. 2) There is a way to disable the license text in the startup message: you can invoke GDB with "-q" in the command line, and it will be silent. 3) Starting from GDB 11.1 (which is not in Debian yet), you can also use the "set startup-quietly" option into your "gdbearlyinit" startup file. Honestly, if it were up to me I'd probably close this bug as wontfix, but I will just lower its severity for now so that zumbi has a change to comment. Thanks, -- Sergio GPG key ID: 237A 54B1 0287 28BF 00EF 31F4 D0EB 7628 65FC 5E36 Please send encrypted e-mail if possible https://sergiodj.net/
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