Hello,

On Mon, 26 Oct 2009, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> In RPM based distributions, the build system generally creates a
> separate debug/debuginfo package that you can install to get the debug
> symbols rather than recompile anything.

... and later ...

> Debian and derivates don't do this yet but apparently a major goal for
> the next release.

Until this goal is reached ... you can do the following.

 # apt-get build-dep pkgname
 $ apt-get source pkgname
 $ cd pkgname-version
 $ DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip dpkg-buildpackage -uc -us -B

This will create a debug package that you can install and run
to get a stacktrace. (Warning: this debug package will overwrite your
existing package unless you make some other changes. However, you can
revert to your existing package with 'aptitude reinstall pkgname').

Regards,

Kapil.
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