Package: libc6-dbg Version: 2.9-0exp2 Severity: normal Hi, the debug package doesn't help anyhow when inspecting core dumps. It would be much useful if the package would provide the symbols for local variables and thelike to get the full backtrace with gdb. That's also what other debug packages of libraries do. Quoting the discussion on #513341: Daniel Jacobowitz hat am Thu 05. Feb, 14:03 (-0500) geschrieben: > On Mon, Feb 02, 2009 at 10:12:37PM +0100, Jörg Sommer wrote: > > But this doesn't work for core dumps. I would like to get more > > informations, like local variables from core dumps. How can I get such > > informations with the debugging library in /usr/lib/debug? > > Sorry, there's no way to do this with the current packages. Bye, Jörg. -- System Information: Debian Release: unstable/experimental APT prefers unstable APT policy: (900, 'unstable'), (700, 'experimental') Architecture: powerpc (ppc) Kernel: Linux 2.6.29-rc5 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to de_DE.UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages libc6-dbg depends on: ii libc6 2.9-0exp2 GNU C Library: Shared libraries libc6-dbg recommends no packages. libc6-dbg suggests no packages. -- no debconf information
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