On Tue, 03 Mar 2009, Steve McIntyre wrote: > I've got to wondering: are the large -dbg packages actually really > useful to anybody? > > Thoughts?
I think they are useful, but probably not for the vast majority of users. [I've used them on a few dozen occasions.] What I really wish for is the ability to have a relatively centralized location where the symbols from every single package ended up that was separate from the normal mirrors. The above, coupled with a coredump submission site which would accept coredumps and automatically generate backtraces for them (or a script that downloaded the -dbg packages, unpacked them and backtraced the coredump) would be a great help in debugging some of the relatively rare segfaults. [We could probably even hook up a coredump handler to such a script.] There was some talk that Ubuntu was going to implement such a thing at the Prague UDS, but I've no clue if it ever came to fruition. Don Armstrong -- Science is a way of trying not to fool yourself. The first principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool. -- Richard Feynman "What is and What Should be the Role of Scientific Culture in Modern Society"; 1964 http://www.donarmstrong.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org