On Thu, Aug 02, 2007, Don Armstrong wrote: > Is there any reason why this isn't handled by a > /usr/share/bug/gnome/script (or whatever is appropriate) which tells > the user to install the -dbg package if they aren't currently > installed so backtraces can be generated?
While this is an interesting suggestion (which I'm taking note of!), it might not be enough when users are using specific reporting tools: bug-buddy comes to mind for example. > Once you've got the corefile, you can always mate the -dbg to it after > the fact. Hmm I don't expect the majority of users to know how to do this nor how to enable core dumps in the default config. This very discussion reminds me that we lack a serious debugging infrastructure like major projects or companies have: Mozilla, Ubuntu, Apple, Microsoft... We really need new tools: - to collect segfault data using a different channel than bug reports (for example to merge multiple reports into one, to find top crashers, to protect sensitive information, ...) - to get crashes with useful information (propose installing -dbg packages, collect crash specific information such as ~/.xsession-errors for desktop apps) - etc. -- Loïc Minier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]