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Re: RFS: ext3grep



Asheesh Laroia scrisse:

> > I believe including debug symbols is important here, as there are
> > known bugs in the software, and the upstream author's first command
> > to anyone who reports a bug is to rebuild with the options included
> > in my package, including debug symbols. This will save Debian users
> > time, and help improve the software. :)
> 
> I agree with this sentiment for a program like this.

As I've already said, I'm not of the same opinion. Rebuilding a package
to stracktrace it is not only author's recommendations, but I'd say it
is the standard procedure.
You can handle it via DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS, easing your users'life, the
same way you're actually handling "noopt" (eg. via a "debug" option).

Developer's reference 6.7.9 partially spoke about it, and I think your
case is in the "bloat the archive" situation. Moreover it is a single
little binary, used for corner-case one-time ext3 recovery, and easily
(and quickly) rebuildable.

Speaking in general, I think the one-app-one-dbg paradigm is quite
harmful for all our infrastructure.

Any comment is appreciated, though.
Ciao, Luca

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