Re: -dbg packages; are they actually useful?
On Tue, 03 Mar 2009, Steve McIntyre wrote:
> I've got to wondering: are the large -dbg packages actually really
> useful to anybody?
>
> Thoughts?
I think they are useful, but probably not for the vast majority of
users. [I've used them on a few dozen occasions.]
What I really wish for is the ability to have a relatively centralized
location where the symbols from every single package ended up that was
separate from the normal mirrors.
The above, coupled with a coredump submission site which would accept
coredumps and automatically generate backtraces for them (or a script
that downloaded the -dbg packages, unpacked them and backtraced the
coredump) would be a great help in debugging some of the relatively
rare segfaults. [We could probably even hook up a coredump handler to
such a script.]
There was some talk that Ubuntu was going to implement such a thing at
the Prague UDS, but I've no clue if it ever came to fruition.
Don Armstrong
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Culture in Modern Society"; 1964
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