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Re: Mandatory -dbg packages



On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 8:50 AM, Philip Ashmore wrote:

> While this feature allows gdb to know the correct source locations, using it
> implies that packages requiring the feature contain incorrect source paths -
> wouldn't it be better for these packages to contain correct source paths in
> the first place?

There is no such thing as a "correct source path", I unpack source
tarballs to ~/tmp/ when debugging, you seem to use /usr/src/ and John
Doe uses ~/src/debian/pool/f/foo/foo-0.1/.

-- 
bye,
pabs

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