[Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#478714: Bug#478714: Bug#478714: smbfs: Please provide debug symbols in samba-dbg

[Steve Langasek]

On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 07:06:15PM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote:
> Quoting Ted Percival (ted at midg3t.net):

> > I found a non-crash bug in mount.cifs[1] and hoped to use the debug 
> > symbols to get a better idea of where it was occurring without 
> > rebuilding samba myself (yet).

> > [1] https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5434

> > Naturally I'll have to build Samba myself if I want to do any real 
> > debugging, I just thought maybe the debug symbols were left out by accident.

> We apparently never came back on this issue after Ted's answer.

> Attached is a patch that should help including debug symbols for
> binaries of smbfs, in the samba-dbg package.

> Steve, you seemed to have some reluctance to do this, could you
> elaborate?

Shipping -dbg packages in the archive is not scalable.  We have a samba-dbg
package for the purpose of generating useful reports when samba crashes; I
don't think we should add symbols to the package for use cases that are only
relevant to people doing development (debugging mount.cifs is
"development").

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