gdb is broken?

["Anthony C. Zboralski" <acz@debian.org>]

a month ago i filed up a bug report about gdb broken thread support; maybe
it is that ugly thread patch that's outdated.

how come none of the bugs reported in gdb are fixed?

#12050: gdb: tries to claim a variable is 0x0, when it's "'"
    Package: gdb; Reported by: James Troup <J.J.Troup@comp.brad.ac.uk>;
478 days old. 
    #16801: gdb and mmx
    Package: gdb; Reported by: Vincent Renardias <vincent@waw.com>; 330
days old. 
    #22972: gdb again lacks m68k support
    Package: gdb; Reported by: Roman.Hodek@informatik.uni-erlangen.de; 189
days old. 
    #24598: bug in ObjC support (plus workaround)
    Package: gdb; Reported by: Matthias Klose <doko@cs.tu-berlin.de>; 142
days old. 
    #28058: gdb lacks thread support
    Package: gdb; Reported by: "Anthony C. Zboralski" <acz@debian.org>; 49
days old. 
    #28274: gdb: diff for NMU of 4.17-4.m68k.objc.threads.hwwp.fpu.gnat.2
    Package: gdb; Reported by: James Troup <james@nocrew.org>; 44 days
old. 
    #28653: gdb_4.17-4.m68k.objc.threads.hwwp.fpu.gnat.2(unstable):
Doesn't compile on m68k due to
    threads patch
    Package: gdb; Reported by: Roman.Hodek@informatik.uni-erlangen.de; 37
days old.