On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 08:40:38PM +0100, Thierry Vignaud wrote: > On 28 November 2012 17:23, Colin Guthrie <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I have the same feeling with regardds to my computers. > >> What I do in these situations is to install the debug packages, run the > >> application in gdb, record the debug info, and then uninstall the debug > >> packages. > >> > >> You don't have to keep the debug packages installed after you've collected > >> the debug info. > > > > Longer term it would be nice to be able to have a service to upload the > > core files and then generate the backtrace remotely. > > libreport and the associated packages do that... > But that's less needed now that we have minidebug info.
minidebug? Is that like the feature in Fedora where some small amount of debug info is added to make backtraces much more useful by default? We have that already? > What's more, even without debug packages, gdb will got a useful backtrace -- Regards, Olav
