As of at least Trusty libc-dbg is a recommends of gdb, so I believe this is resolved.
Package: gdb Priority: optional Section: devel Installed-Size: 6314 Maintainer: Ubuntu Core developers <ubuntu-devel-disc...@lists.ubuntu.com> Original-Maintainer: Héctor Orón Martínez <zu...@debian.org> Architecture: amd64 Version: 7.7-0ubuntu3 Depends: libc6 (>= 2.15), libexpat1 (>= 2.0.1), liblzma5 (>= 5.1.1alpha+20110809), libncurses5 (>= 5.5-5~), libpython3.4 (>= 3.4~b1), libreadline6 (>= 6.0), libtinfo5, zlib1g (>= 1:1.2.0), libpython3-stdlib Recommends: libc-dbg, python3 Suggests: gdb-doc, gdbserver ** Changed in: gdb (Ubuntu) Status: Triaged => Fix Released -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to gdb in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/910890 Title: gdb should at least suggest libc6-dbg Status in gdb package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Bug description: gdb should probably at least suggest libc6-dbg as having symbols for the library almost any/every binary is linked to would be helpful. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gdb/+bug/910890/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp