On Monday 21 August 2006 12:26, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote: > Is it really? I don't know how to use debuginfo packages, so I don't > know if there's any point to having them if they're not complete. > > Obviously we know that a debuginfo package with no files should be > disabled, so what needs to be there before there's any point to > enabling it? Enough so that running gdb (gnu debugger) on the application will produce a meaningful traceback. This helps a lot in figuring out where / why an application is crashing. Without a debuginfo package you cannot get this information without recompiling the package and leaving the binaries unstripped. -- Jesse Keating Release Engineer: Fedora
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