On Sun, 27 Dec 2009 17:26:43 -0200 "Nelson A. de Oliveira" <naoliv@debian.org> wrote: > On Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 10:14 AM, Jari Aalto <jari.aalto@cante.net> > wrote: > > Repoening, this doesn't address the original bug report titled > > "missing README.Debian to explain how programs are used". Please > > provide instructions how to use those files with gdb in order to > > examine problems with imagemagick problems. That is down to the gdb manpage, not every single -dbg package in the entire archive IMHO. There are other sources of info too, like the Wiki. http://wiki.debian.org/HowToGetABacktrace > > There could be even a use case how to start debugging some of the > > programs, like "convert". Once the -dbg packages are installed: $ gdb /usr/bin/convert The rest is down to the gdb manpage, no? gdb does all the work of locating /usr/lib/debug/usr/bin/convert, hence all such files are mode 0644. > The problem here is that we have a lot of -dbg packages on Debian, all > of them containing binaries under /usr/lib/debug/ > Do we need the same README file on all of them? We will have more than > a thousand equal READMEs on the archive, explaining the same thing. > I don't think that a file explaining how to use them with gdb belongs > to imagemagick-dbg (nor any other -dbg packages). > > My view is that, if necessary, the package maintainer is responsible > in helping the user to get a backtrace (by pointing how to use gdb, > install the -dbg package, etc). > Or at least an explanation in the gdb package only. > > CCing debian-devel to see if we can get better opinions and solutions > for this. Jari, I don't see how any package other than gdb can provide the information you seek. Yes the gdb manpage can appear scary but that isn't the fault of any of the -dbg packages. It's equivalent to asking every package contaning a PNG image to document how to view a PNG image in eog or gimp. -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/ http://e-mail.is-not-s.ms/
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