[...] > > > I could buy that for mtr-tiny, but which average user can do anything > > meaningful with strace so that it needs to be in standard? If you need > > it you have bug, and the average user will report that $upstream > > (debian, developer, wherever). And can then install it if asked to > > strace something. > > Having the tool available by default means one less step that users need to > follow in order to debug. >
[...] My main concern is that user <-> debug relation, which I doubt. "standard" is meant for all users, not only for the developer/sysadmin subset. I do agree that installing the debugging tool, when directed to do so, is one additional step, but it's probably the easiest one. Best, Michael
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