On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 07:06:15PM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote: > Quoting Ted Percival (t...@midg3t.net):
> > I found a non-crash bug in mount.cifs[1] and hoped to use the debug > > symbols to get a better idea of where it was occurring without > > rebuilding samba myself (yet). > > [1] https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5434 > > Naturally I'll have to build Samba myself if I want to do any real > > debugging, I just thought maybe the debug symbols were left out by accident. > We apparently never came back on this issue after Ted's answer. > Attached is a patch that should help including debug symbols for > binaries of smbfs, in the samba-dbg package. > Steve, you seemed to have some reluctance to do this, could you > elaborate? Shipping -dbg packages in the archive is not scalable. We have a samba-dbg package for the purpose of generating useful reports when samba crashes; I don't think we should add symbols to the package for use cases that are only relevant to people doing development (debugging mount.cifs is "development"). -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ slanga...@ubuntu.com vor...@debian.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
