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Bug#516516: Provide all debug symbols



Hallo Aurelien,

Aurelien Jarno hat am Thu 26. Feb, 23:20 (+0100) geschrieben:
> On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 10:21:44AM +0100, Jörg Sommer wrote:
> > Aurelien Jarno hat am Sun 22. Feb, 03:45 (+0100) geschrieben:
> > > 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.

> A few tests have shown that the loading time of symbols has decreased to
> an acceptable level even on slow machines, so the debugging symbols 
> won't be stripped anymore in the next version (2.9-4).

Very good news. Thank you.

Bye, Jörg.
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