Le mardi 24 avril 2007 à 12:58 +0200, Reinhard Tartler a écrit : > Ben Hutchings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Installing debugging symbols for all binaries involved in a crash > > seems... heavyweight. I would expect the user to want to get on with > > his or her work at this point. > > > > Wouldn't it be better - in terms of response rate - to take a > > "minidump" (along the lines of Windows error reporting or Mozilla's > > Quality Feedback Agent) and do symbol lookup on some central server? > > isn't this quite similar to what ubuntu is doing with Apport? > > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Apport
Apport sends complete core dumps, which is a very bad idea. The dumps can be huge (for desktop applications they often grow beyond 200MB) and they can contain gazillions of sensitive information. Using a central server for symbol lookup like Ben proposed looks like a better idea. It needs gdb to be adapted or wrapped to access them correctly, though. -- .''`. : :' : We are debian.org. Lower your prices, surrender your code. `. `' We will add your hardware and software distinctiveness to `- our own. Resistance is futile.
