Introducing automatic crash reporting in Edgy

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Mon, Aug 14, 2006 at 12:27:15PM -0500, Jerry Haltom wrote:
> I am curious, with regard to these debug symbols, if it would be
> possible to remove their need.
> 
> bug-buddy and related crash reporting applications could be made to
> submit a core file. This core file, when combined with the -dbg package
> *by a developer* would result in the proper stack track. Seeing as all
> of the packages a user should be using in a release distro are fairly
> static, this probably isn't that big of a deal. For edgy, the packages
> are available or findable.
>
> There could even be a launchpad service of some sort of some sort to
> take core files from bug reports and upload a stack trace automatically.
> (install exact versions into chroot, use to extract stack trace, etc).

That's exactly what was originally conceptualized, documented in the spec
*and* described by Martin in his email. ;-)

The only piece you have missed is that normal -dbg packages are not
available for all packages, nor is it practical to create them for all
packages, and so we will store the debug symbols in a separate archive.

-- 
 - mdz