Re: Debugging symbol packages (4 questions)
On Wed, Jul 11, 2007 at 09:16:02AM +0100, Magnus Therning wrote:
> More and more debug (-dbg) packages are popping up in the repositories.
> Is there an effort going to to make sure _all_ packages in Debian has a
> debug package?
It's possible that it's going to become a requirement for all
libraries in Lenny.
> It seems that Ubuntu has .ddeb packages while the packages I've seen in
> Debian are regular .deb, but with -dbg in their names. Will it remain
> this way or will the two converge on one approach at some time?
I don't think so. I think Ubuntu and Debian have diverged far enough
to have different policies.
> What I've noticed so far is that most GNOME packages have a -dbg
> package. I suppose one reason for this is to make sure users submit
> good bug reports to Debian and GNOME. However, expecting regular users
> to manually install debug symbols and reproduce the error is a bit too
> optimistic. Are there any plans for automating this?
I am not sure about this, though this seems sound. But if it's users
of testing/unstable, you could expect some of them to possess enough
knowledge to do the needful to use the dbg library.
> Is there a remote server that shares a folder that I could mount (e.g.
> using FUSE) and get all symbols without having to install all the
> packages myself?
I didn't understand this exactly. Is this related to the Debug
packages? Do you want to mount a repository and use the debug packages
without having to install them?
HTH.
Kumar
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