Debug package

[Roberto C. Sanchez]

On Tue, Nov 14, 2006 at 02:31:32PM +0200, Fabian Fagerholm wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I introduced a debug package. It's one single package with debug symbols
> for all the other packages. Therefore, I named it cyrus-sasl2-dbg.
> 
Out of curiousity, would this be better than having a -dbg for each
corresponding lib package?  I understand that from a convenience
perspective, it is nice to not have to worry about whether the user has
the right debugging package installed.  My promary concern, however is
that the size of a single package with all the symbols might be a bit
large.  Though, I have not built the package to check.

> It'll have to go trough NEW, but I think it's really worth it -- as hmh
> said in #240767 -- there are many open bugs against this package where
> having debugging symbols is pretty essential when asking the user to
> provide more information.
> 
We may want to check with the FTP masters and see if they can fast track
this.  I appreciate the need to fix as many bugs as possible and I think
that in the last six weeks we have worked the bug list for cyrus-sasl2
down to be the shortest it has been in an extremely long time.  However,
I am concerned that the constant churn may put the RMs off from wanting
to include it in Etch.  We may need to form a very compelling argument
(e.g., the current Sarge/Etch version will be nearly impossible to
support from a security perspective, etc) in order to make it in.

> I'm under the impression that gdb will automatically load debugging
> symbols from /usr/lib/debug and thus we don't even have to provide any
> special docs for users to follow, we just ask them to install this -dbg
> package and then run the program under gdb. (The latter depends on the
> situation, so I don't think we write more than a few lines of general
> advice.) Does anyone have contradicting knowledge?
> 
I'm not sure.  I will tru and test this out, but it will not be until
the end of next week at the earliest.

> I'll wait a few days, but then I'm going to upload this so that it has a
> chance to go through NEW before it's really too late.
> 
Sounds good, as long as we don't cut ourselves off from being included
in Etch.

Regards,

-Roberto

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Roberto C. Sanchez
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