On Mon, Jul 07, 2008 at 05:39:00PM +0200, Mike Hommey wrote: > There are 3 kind of people who need -dbg packages. > - Users, when they are asked to provide proper backtraces in bug reports > - Developers, when they need to debug stuff > - Maintainers > > Obviously, the latter will be able to get the sources themselves, so do > the second, most of the time, though the debian/rules patch thing might be > a problem, especially when you need to install cdbs or some other stuff to > get it working (only to apply dumb patches, d'uh).
Well, maybe the dpkg-source 3.0 package formats will make this easier. It should would be nice if there was a standardized debian/rules target which would unpack the source tarballs and apply any necessary patches, such that the sources were in a state usable by gdb, though. And there was a way that something like "apt-get source" would automatically run the rule, perhaps on an appropriate command-line option, even better. > And she won't have a core for the > previous crash because the default is not to core (and BTW, it's uselessly > made difficult to override this, see #487879). I just looked at this bug, and are you sure this isn't because you have this configured in /etc/security/limits.conf? - Ted -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]