Request: -dbg packages for major Gnome applications

[Jerry Haltom]

On Sat, 2004-12-04 at 14:10 -0600, Jerry Haltom wrote:
> It would perhaps be very useful to create -dbg packages for the common
> large Gnome applications: such as Evolution, Nautilus, Gnome-Panel, etc.
> I tend to have these guys crash out on me fairly regularly, but every
> time I do, I had forgotten to rebuild my "nostrip" version, so I can
> never catch where. It's a bit tedious to track upgrades to all these
> applications, rebuilding them on my own. I would bet we'd get some more
> useful debug information from bug-buddy crashes if installing symbols
> was easier.

Along this line of thought, I just had what may be considered a
Brilliant Idea!

Right before Bug Buddy attempts to get a full stack trace, have it
request synaptic to install the -dbg package for the program in
question. The name of this package can be obtained where ever Bug Buddy
gets the rest of it's information.

This would provide us with potentially useful stack traces when Bug
Buddy pops up. As of now it's nearly useless.

-- 
Jerry Haltom <wasabi at larvalstage.net>