On Wed, Jul 11, 2007 at 09:16:02AM +0100, Magnus Therning wrote: > More and more debug (-dbg) packages are popping up in the repositories. > Is there an effort going to to make sure _all_ packages in Debian has a > debug package?
It's possible that it's going to become a requirement for all libraries in Lenny. > It seems that Ubuntu has .ddeb packages while the packages I've seen in > Debian are regular .deb, but with -dbg in their names. Will it remain > this way or will the two converge on one approach at some time? I don't think so. I think Ubuntu and Debian have diverged far enough to have different policies. > What I've noticed so far is that most GNOME packages have a -dbg > package. I suppose one reason for this is to make sure users submit > good bug reports to Debian and GNOME. However, expecting regular users > to manually install debug symbols and reproduce the error is a bit too > optimistic. Are there any plans for automating this? I am not sure about this, though this seems sound. But if it's users of testing/unstable, you could expect some of them to possess enough knowledge to do the needful to use the dbg library. > Is there a remote server that shares a folder that I could mount (e.g. > using FUSE) and get all symbols without having to install all the > packages myself? I didn't understand this exactly. Is this related to the Debug packages? Do you want to mount a repository and use the debug packages without having to install them? HTH. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 462, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600 036 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
