On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 12:11 AM, Don Armstrong <d...@debian.org> wrote: > On Tue, 03 Mar 2009, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> I've got to wondering: are the large -dbg packages actually really >> useful to anybody? >> >> Thoughts?
See #508585 and http://debug.debian.net/ It will be really nice to have this stuff generalized for squeeze. > I think they are useful, but probably not for the vast majority of > users. [I've used them on a few dozen occasions.] > What I really wish for is the ability to have a relatively centralized > location where the symbols from every single package ended up that was > separate from the normal mirrors. See http://debug.debian.net/ > The above, coupled with a coredump submission site which would accept > coredumps and automatically generate backtraces for them (or a script > that downloaded the -dbg packages, unpacked them and backtraced the > coredump) would be a great help in debugging some of the relatively > rare segfaults. [We could probably even hook up a coredump handler to > such a script.] Like unbuntu system. it is really really helpful. > There was some talk that Ubuntu was going to implement such a thing at > the Prague UDS, but I've no clue if it ever came to fruition. It is implemented in ubuntu, and lauchpad receive automatic report. > Don Armstron > > -- Bastien -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
