Re: Squeeze Konqueror Crashes - Need Debug Symbols
On Thursday 19 Jul 2012 08:30:46 Daniel Sutil wrote:
>
> On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 4:34 AM, Nick Boyce wrote:
> [...]
>> I've searched packages.d.o for anything resembling a package of Konqueror
>> debug symbols, but without success. (Searching package descriptions for
>> "konqueror debug symbols" finds 46 other packages' debug symbols but
>> nothing for Konqueror ...)
>>
>> Likewise, doing :
>> # apt-cache search "debug symbols"|grep -i konq
>>
>> finds debug symbols for 305 other packages but not Konqueror.
>>
>> Can anyone tell me what to install so as to get usable crash dumps so as
>> to become able to submit Konqueror bug reports ?
>
> I think that in this case, you have to install the package kdebase-dbg
Thanks very much Daniel - I would never have guessed that package. I've
installed it, and await the next Konqueror crash with renewed enthusiasm :)
OT: (and FAO Debian packagers I guess)
IMHO there's a packaging issue here ....
(a) it's very difficult for the uninitiated to figure out where to get the
debugging symbols from - there's no indication of the required package on the
packages.d.o/konqueror page - not even a 'recommends' or a 'suggests' - and
the built-in 'Install Debug Symbols' button is, as I reported, disabled ...
(Should I bug report that ? ... surely someone else has seen the greyed-out
button, but I can't see any related bug report.)
(b) the user has to install 325Mb of debug packages (painful for some folks)
to acquire the ability to report crashes in a web browser, at a time where the
browser package itself is around 1.3Mb !
Well much of that 325Mb is required additional auto-installed packages :
kdebase-dbg amd64 4:4.4.5-2 [29.0 MB]
kdebase-runtime-dbg amd64 4:4.4.5-1 [22.8 MB]
libqt4-dbg amd64 4:4.6.3-4+squeeze1 [160 MB]
libc6-dbg amd64 2.11.3-3 [10.5 MB]
kdelibs5-dbg amd64 4:4.4.5-2+squeeze3 [103 MB]
Of course I suppose a lot of this 325Mb will also provide for usable crash
dumps from other packages besides Konq, but still ... why no 'konqueror-dbg'
package ?
Cheers,
Nick
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