On Monday 05 November 2012 06:29 PM, Simon McVittie wrote: > sysprof reads the CRC of separated debug symbols (in /usr/lib/debug) > incorrectly, resulting in it not using those debug symbols. This is > apparently fixed in 1.2.0 with this commit: > > http://git.gnome.org/browse/sysprof/commit/?id=e9eb5ae3ae1eee52e88eef68a5b0ea09687db020 > > This makes sysprof considerably less useful on Debian systems than it > would otherwise be, since most of our debug symbols are separated (unless > you recompile everything with DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip). It might be > worth asking the release team whether they would be willing to grant > a freeze exception for a backport of that commit, or even the whole of > sysprof 1.2.0 (since it's a leaf package and the changes since 1.1.8 are > not particularly extensive).
Thank you Simon for reporting this issue. I have asked the release team for an exception. 1.2.0 is in experimental. Have you used it? Ritesh -- Ritesh Raj Sarraf RESEARCHUT - http://www.researchut.com "Necessity is the mother of invention."
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