I would like to propose an addition to Java packaging guidelines that would recommend including line number information in .class files. Line numbers are already included in majority of .class files installed as part of Fedora packages (most of compilers include them by default), but some packages install "optimized" or even obfuscated class files which don't contain line numbers. Lack of line numbers makes stack traces less useful and therefore debugging more difficult. In Java we don't have separate debuginfo packages that would carry basic debugging information. Line numbers themselves have very low impact on performance or installation size, so in my opinion they should be included in all class files installed in Fedora, perhaps with exception for classes not compiled from Java source, but generated by other means (for example RMI compile). What do you think about that? Do you agree with my proposal? -- Mikolaj Izdebski -- java-devel mailing list java-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/java-devel
