Could someone help me with getting the latest version of libunwind (v0.96) packaged up and included as part of Debian/testing for ia64? Once libunwind is part of the normal Debian tree, it should be possible to simply rebuild the GCC package and get a libunwind-enabled GCC, which should yield much more reliable (and faster) unwinding. Considering the glibc now uses unwinding not just for C++ exception handling, but also for stuff like pthread_cancel(), reliability of the unwinder is really starting to matter.
Matthieu Delahaye already created Debian packages for a slightly earlier version of libunwind (see http://www.esiee.fr/~delahaym/libunwind/), so hopefully creating the updated packages is straight-forward. Since I don't really know anything about Debian packaging, all help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, --david
