Any progress on this bug ? On Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 8:26 PM, Nelson A. de Oliveira <nao...@debian.org> wrote: > Hi! > > On Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 10:14 AM, Jari Aalto <jari.aa...@cante.net> wrote: >> Repoening, this doesn't address the original bug report titled "missing >> README.Debian to explain how programs are used". Please provide >> instructions how to use those files with gdb in order to examine >> problems with imagemagick problems. >> >> There could be even a use case how to start debugging some of the >> programs, like "convert". > > The problem here is that we have a lot of -dbg packages on Debian, all > of them containing binaries under /usr/lib/debug/ > Do we need the same README file on all of them? We will have more than > a thousand equal READMEs on the archive, explaining the same thing. > I don't think that a file explaining how to use them with gdb belongs > to imagemagick-dbg (nor any other -dbg packages). > > My view is that, if necessary, the package maintainer is responsible > in helping the user to get a backtrace (by pointing how to use gdb, > install the -dbg package, etc). > Or at least an explanation in the gdb package only. > > CCing debian-devel to see if we can get better opinions and solutions for > this. > > Best regards, > Nelson > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org > >
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