On Sun, 2010-01-17 at 17:49 +0000, Camilo Mesias wrote:
> Someone else asked this earlier - but why do users need the
debug-info
> packages - only the debugger looking at the tracebacks needs this.
So
> seems installing the debug files on every desktop/server that has a
> problem is much less efficient than just on the dev computer who
needs
> the info - no?
This is a good point, the users shouldn't really have to install
debuginfo for a one-off use. It would be better for a central server
or service to have access to all the debuginfo files at all versions.
The back end processing of symbol-less backtraces + version info to
fully annotated ones could be automated.
This is basically Will Woods' debuginfofs idea, that he's been sitting
on for a while now. CCing Will. If you're interested I'm sure you can
poke him on IRC and he'll give you all his thoughts / work on the idea.
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