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[Ted Gould <ted@xxxxxxxx>]

Discussed this with Pat on IRC. While we want to keep most general
debugging tools off the standard image we're good with gdbserver because
it is small and really just a channel into the device. It allows the
tool to be installed on the host, so it's not really putting all the
tools into the device itself.

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Title:
  The gdbserver is not available on the device image

Status in the base for Ubuntu mobile products:
  New
Status in ubuntu-touch-meta package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  To enable debugging of applications with C++ code the target device
  must have gdbserver package installed.

  Right now for that the app developers need to turn the device writable
  and manually install the gdbserver package.

  It would be much more convinient and secure to keep the device
  readonly and have the gdbserver pre-installed on the device.

  The disk space should not be a concern  as all installed files from
  the package use up 215KB (binary - 190KB + doc - 20KB   + manpage -
  5KB)

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