Hello there, I would like to announce a new service that I have just configured for Debian: https://debuginfod.debian.net. debuginfod is a new-ish project whose purpose is to serve ELF/DWARF/source-code information over HTTP. It is developed under the elfutils umbrella. You can find more information about it here: https://sourceware.org/elfutils/Debuginfod.html In a nutshell, by using a debuginfod service you will not need to install debuginfo (a.k.a. dbgsym) files anymore; the symbols will be served to GDB (or any other debuginfo consumer that supports debuginfod) over the network. Ultimately, this makes the debugging experience much smoother (I myself never remember the full URL of our debuginfo repository when I need it). If you would like to use the service, and if the service supports the Debian distribution you are using (see below), all you have to do is make sure that the following environment variable is set in your shell: DEBUGINFOD_URLS="https://debuginfod.debian.net"; Currently, the elfutils and GDB packages in unstable and testing have native support for using debuginfod. I will soon propose a change to the elfutils package in order to make it be configured with our debuginfod instance by default, so that users will be able to use the service transparently. For now, debuginfod.debian.net is serving debug information symbols for the following Debian distributions: - unstable - testing - testing-proposed-updates - stable - stable-backports - proposed-updates In the near future I intend to expand this list and include the debuginfo stored at snapshot.debian.org as well. Setting up a debuginfod service for Debian has been on my TODO list for some time now, and I finally got enough time & resources to do it. I would like to thank a few people for their feedback and help: - Héctor Orón (zumbi) - Jonathan Carter (highvoltage) - Paul Wise (pabs) Last, but not least, you can find a wiki page about our service here: https://wiki.debian.org/Debuginfod Thanks, -- Sergio GPG key ID: 237A 54B1 0287 28BF 00EF 31F4 D0EB 7628 65FC 5E36 Please send encrypted e-mail if possible https://sergiodj.net/
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