-dbg packages and dependencies

[Tom Albers]

At Friday 17 November 2006 01:55, you wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 09:37:20PM +0100, Sune Vuorela wrote:
> > Hi!
> > 
> > As some of you might have noticed, I have been working quite much on some of 
> > the debian kde bugs lately.
> > 
> > I have found my self writing in many bug reports with bad backtraces and
> crash 
> > reports without backtrace
> > 
> > | please try again and install qt-x11-free-dbg kdelibs-dbg $SOURCEPKG-dbg
> > | to try produce a better backtrace
> > 
> > I have started to wonder - is there any reasons not to have $SOURCEPKG-dbg 
> > depending on qt-x11-free-dbg kdelibs-dbg ?
> > and maybe add gdb to recommends.
> 
>   that makes sense to me at least !

For me too. If gdb is essential to create a valid backtrace (i'm still not sure about it), then maybe it should be more then 'recommended'?

Toma