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Bug#516516: Provide all debug symbols



severity 516516 wishlist
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On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 01:23:13AM +0100, Jörg Sommer wrote:
> 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.

The drawback of providing all symbols is that it makes gdb very slow to
load all symbols, render it almost unusable.

> 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.
> 

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