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Re: Mandatory -dbg packages for libraries?



Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> writes:

> Installing debugging symbols for all binaries involved in a crash
> seems... heavyweight.  I would expect the user to want to get on with
> his or her work at this point.
>
> Wouldn't it be better - in terms of response rate - to take a
> "minidump" (along the lines of Windows error reporting or Mozilla's
> Quality Feedback Agent) and do symbol lookup on some central server?

isn't this quite similar to what ubuntu is doing with Apport?

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Apport

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Gruesse/greetings,
Reinhard Tartler, KeyID 945348A4



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