Hi, Don Armstrong <d...@debian.org> writes:
> What I really wish for is the ability to have a relatively centralized > location where the symbols from every single package ended up that was > separate from the normal mirrors. > > The above, coupled with a coredump submission site which would accept > coredumps and automatically generate backtraces for them (or a script > that downloaded the -dbg packages, unpacked them and backtraced the > coredump) would be a great help in debugging some of the relatively > rare segfaults. [We could probably even hook up a coredump handler to > such a script.] > > There was some talk that Ubuntu was going to implement such a thing at > the Prague UDS, but I've no clue if it ever came to fruition. Ubuntu has both of the above: automatic generation of debug symbol packages at build time [1] and a backtracing service integrated in the bug tracker [2]. Regards, Ansgar [1] https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-announce/2006-September/000195.html Packages with debug symbols can be downloaded from http://ddebs.ubuntu.com [2] https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2007-March/023440.html -- PGP: 1024D/595FAD19 739E 2D09 0969 BEA9 9797 B055 DDB0 2FF7 595F AD19 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
