Discussed this with Pat on IRC. While we want to keep most general debugging tools off the standard image we're good with gdbserver because it is small and really just a channel into the device. It allows the tool to be installed on the host, so it's not really putting all the tools into the device itself.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to ubuntu-touch-meta in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1364872 Title: The gdbserver is not available on the device image Status in the base for Ubuntu mobile products: New Status in ubuntu-touch-meta package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: To enable debugging of applications with C++ code the target device must have gdbserver package installed. Right now for that the app developers need to turn the device writable and manually install the gdbserver package. It would be much more convinient and secure to keep the device readonly and have the gdbserver pre-installed on the device. The disk space should not be a concern as all installed files from the package use up 215KB (binary - 190KB + doc - 20KB + manpage - 5KB) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/canonical-devices-system-image/+bug/1364872/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
