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Re: How to use -dbg packages?



Le dim 27 août 2006 09:51, Ritesh Raj Sarraf a écrit :
> Pierre Habouzit on Saturday 26 Aug 2006 06:49 wrote:
> > No, it's only used by gdb to translate the symbols. -dbg packages
> > are just the symbols from the binaries that are stripped into
> > separate files, to avoid bloating of the binaries. Then, IIRC, a
> > GNUism is used to tell to gdb where those symbols are (when they
> > are installed) that's all.
>
> Forgive me if my understanding is totally dumb. But then it is of no
> use for a general KDE user to install. Most users won't know how to
> run their crashing application using gdb and load the symbols.
>
> It would have been great to install it, if when the KDE application
> crashed, and the KDE crash handler collected the crash information to
> send to the developers, it would use the debug symbols from those
> -dbg packages.

the -dbg packages are automatically used by the kde crash handler to 
generate the backtraces. So *please* use them when you report a KDE 
bug. a backtrace full of "(unresolved symbol)" is of no use, and we 
*will* discard such bug reports, as they are not usable.
-- 
·O·  Pierre Habouzit
··O                                                madcoder@debian.org
OOO                                                http://www.madism.org

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