Bug#362062: Should provide a xorg-dbg metapackage
On Sun, Apr 04, 2010 at 11:08:12PM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
> Josh Triplett <josh@freedesktop.org> (11/04/2006):
> > In addition to the xorg and xorg-dev metapackages, the xorg source
> > package should provide a xorg-dbg metapackage to depend on all the
> > lib*-dbg packges.
>
> Not sure we want to do so. Could be quite a mess and not really
> maintainable. I've been thinking about a possible script we could
> ship, and tell people to use in order to determine which *-dbg
> packages they might want to install to get meaningful backtraces, by
> detecting the current set of packages. Might be more helpful?
At this point, I agree that it no longer makes sense to have an xorg-dbg
metapackage. One of the planned solutions for universal handling of
debug packages will probably handle this. Feel free to close this bug.
- Josh Triplett
Reply to: