Re: Squeeze Konqueror Crashes - Need Debug Symbols

[Xavier Brochard <xavier@alternatif.org>]

Nick Boyce wrote:
> (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 !

That is the size of the raphical interface. The browser need a rendering 
engine, a javascript interpretor and some libs which are in different 
packages.
 
> 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 ?

Regarding the total size of downloads, it wouldn't make a lot of difference 
because konqueror debugging require 
- 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]

You are right that debugging packages are hard to find when you don't know 
how it works. 

xavier