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Bug#521242: marked as done (please add debug meta-package)

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regarding please add debug meta-package
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Package: meta-kde4
Version: 4
Severity: wishlist

Hi,

It would be useful to me (and hopefully others) to have one metapackage
for all the debug packages, similar to the kde4 meta package.  This
would aid in generating proper backtraces for bug reporting, etc...

Thanks,
--Joe

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (500, 'oldstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.28-1-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

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Hi Joseph,

sorry for the late answer.

In data giovedì 26 marzo 2009 05:29:22 CET, hai scritto:
> Package: meta-kde4
> Version: 4
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> Hi,
> 
> It would be useful to me (and hopefully others) to have one metapackage
> for all the debug packages, similar to the kde4 meta package.  This
> would aid in generating proper backtraces for bug reporting, etc...

Until few years ago, there was usually one big -dbg package for all the
binaries of a source. Even then, this metapackage request did not make
much sense, because you rarely (if ever) need to debug the desktop
environment and all the applications at once.

Nowadays we have automatic debug packages:
https://wiki.debian.org/AutomaticDebugPackages
https://wiki.debian.org/HowToGetABacktrace
meaning that there is a -dbgsym for each binary package. Therefore,
this request is even less useful now, as there are hundreds of dbgsym
packages available, and you really need to install only those you need
for whatever you want to debug. Hence, I'm closing this request.

Thank you anyway for your report,
-- 
Pino Toscano

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