Why gdb isn't updated from 2004?

[Yuri]

On 06/21/2010 15:33, Chuck Swiger wrote:
> The latest versions of gdb are under GPLv3-- I believe starting from around Aug 2007 (aka gdb-6.7.1 or later).
>    

I see. Then my question would morph into this one:
Why gdb port isn't created for the latest gdb-7.1 ?

I need gdb-7.1, GPL or not. After compiling from source I see an issue: 
it can't set breakpoints in the statically linked shared libraries 
(having debug info).

Yuri