Request: -dbg packages for major Gnome applications

[Chris Halls]

On Sat, 2004-12-04 at 14:18 -0600, Jerry Haltom wrote:
> 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.

It shouldn't be necessary - the call stack addresses do not change
whether or not you have debug symbols installed.  OpenOffice.org uses
this fact to analyse stack traces sent in from people even though they
have no symbols installed.

I don't know if there is infrastructure to analyse the addresses using
the available -dbg information, but IMO that would be a better place to
automate things, as it does need the user to download and install
additional packages.

Chris