"Geoffrey Lee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> when packaging stuff
> > for Cooker, the binaries shouldn't be stripped. This would make it easier
> > to try and track down bugs instead of downloading the SRPM and trying to
> > fix it. Then when it's time to move the packages to a release, you can
> > strip them again to save the normal users space.
> >
> > It's hard to track down a bug when the backtrace looks like this:
> > #0 0x8059111 in strcpy ()
> > #1 0x1 in ?? ()
> > #2 0x80542d9 in strcpy ()
> > #3 0x6 in ?? ()
> > #4 0x8080d00 in ?? ()
> >
>
> no not really, we didn't write the software , we only debug the distro, we
> can patch little bugs and problems to make tiw ork better but whne it comes
> to *big big* bugs youd' better rebuild, debug and email the author.
I think the point here is that we could not strip the debuging symbol from
binary for ease of 'general' debuging.
I want to be able to trace a bug and report it to the author.
Maybe it's also why cooker is there.
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-- Yoann http://www.mandrakesoft.com/~yoann/
An engineer from NVidia, while asking him to release geforce specs said :
"Actually, we do write our drivers without documentation."
