On Mi, 27.10.21 17:37, Fedora Development ML (devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote: > On 25/10/2021 21:09, Ben Cotton wrote: > > All binaries (executables and shared libraries) are annotated with an > > ELF note that identifies the rpm for which this file was built. This > > allows binaries to be identified when they are distributed without any > > of the rpm metadata. `systemd-coredump` uses this to log package > > versions when reporting crashes. > > -1 for this change, because it will consume file system space and 99.99% of > users don't need this feature at all. For one moment consider the life of the people who provide you with the software you run: coredumps become infinitely more useful if you can quickly derive which package they come from. So no, if you aren't interested in reading coredumps yourself you won't benefit immediately. But if you want to increase the chance that the various bugs you undoubtly run into every now and then have the highest chance to be fixed quickly, then it's a good thing if the people who provide you with the software can determine with minimal effort what a coredump or minimal backtrace actually belongs to. And the price for improving the life of your distro developers is just a few 100K on your disk. So while you might not benefit immediately, you will benefit in the long run. Lennart -- Lennart Poettering, Berlin _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
