RFC: gnome-dbg

[Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org>]

Hi,

I'd like to improve the effectiveness of bug reporting from Debian
systems, and that includes making debugging symbols available to
bug-buddy.

Currently these debugging symbols are available from most GNOME
packages, and there is a gnome-dbg metapackage that depends on all of
them.

I have thought of two approaches to make them generate useful bug
reports.
     1. Making bug-buddy downloading them automatically when needed;
        this needs to integrate a lot of intelligence in bug-buddy
        itself, as it would have to know which packages to download to
        generate a useful backtrace. The user would also need to wait
        for the download to complete.
     2. Making the gnome-desktop-environment metapackage recommend
        gnome-dbg, and gnome depend on it, but only in the development
        cycle, not in stable releases.

Thoughts anyone?
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