Re: debug symbols for gnome apps
On Sat, Mar 11, 2006, Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo wrote:
> The problem with using dh_strip and keeping symbols around is that it
> does not enable all debug help that can be included in the software. Of
> course, that will make backtraces sent by users much more interesting
> and helpful. But anyway, adding ~200 -dbg packages is something I think
> should be thinked and asked to ftp-masters.
Yes, that's why in my last message I said that 130 new packages were
too many, but it would be ok to have the debugging symbols below
/usr/lib/debug (if that's always possible, and doesn't eat too much
space[1]).
> As a perhaps crazy idea, debug symbols should be kept in something
> like dbg.debian.org... at least for not core packages.
This is how I would see it too, it has all advantages:
- full rebuild is possible
- permit selection of preferred arches (i386 only for example)
- does not eat space on mirrors and end-user systems, nor burdens
Packages.gz
[1] I have a /usr/lib/debug/usr/bin/nautilus here (from nautilus-dbg):
bee% du -hs /usr/lib/debug/usr/bin/nautilus /usr/bin/nautilus
1,6M /usr/lib/debug/usr/bin/nautilus
608K /usr/bin/nautilus
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