Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: kernel-image-2.6.17-10-generic-di

An excellent debugging tool, SystemTap is available in universe yet
there is no way to make use of it without recompiling an ubuntu kernel.

>From http://sourceware.org/systemtap/wiki/SystemtapOnDebian :
Debian kernels do not contain debug information and there is no automatic way 
of installing or producing separate -dbg packages as RedHat has. Thus, there is 
no escape: you will have to manually configure and build a new kernel image 
package. It may help to lobby the Debian kernel-package maintainers, for 
example via debian bug #365349.


So SystemTap is completely worthless without debuginfo in the Ubuntu kernel. 
Fedora / RHEL enable this by default so why can't Ubuntu? Maybe SystemTap 
(package stap) should just be removed from the repository since there is no way 
to make use of it.

** Affects: acpi (upstream)
     Importance: Unknown
         Status: Unknown

** Affects: linux-source-2.6.17 (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: Confirmed

** Affects: Debian
     Importance: Unknown
         Status: Unknown

** Bug watch added: Debian Bug tracker #365349
   http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=365349

** Also affects: Debian via
   http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=365349
   Importance: Unknown
       Status: Unknown

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No debug info in the kernel makes tools like systemtap worthless
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/115830
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