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. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
