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[Martin Pitt <martin.pitt@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Steve Langasek [2014-09-25 11:42 -0700]:
> On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 06:34:02PM +0100, Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre wrote:
> > It's been brought up that it would be useful to get -dbgsym packages in
> > the landing PPAs; for when there are crashes, it's much easier to debug
> > them where you have the symbols.
> 
> > Could this be enabled for the ubuntu and ubuntu-rtm silos? I can see how
> > it could possibly be an issue for the scripts that handle copying
> > packages, since the ddebs shouldn't end up in the archive directly.
> > Perhaps it would be good to start with a little bit of testing in the
> > pre-production silo?
> 
> The dbgsym packages exist, but until dbgsym packages are integrated properly
> into launchpad itself, there's really no good way to publish them.  Until
> packages are copied to the main archive, the dbgsym packages won't be
> available on ddebs.ubuntu.com.

Thinking about this again -- I thought PPAs which enable dbgsyms would
(or could) publish the ddebs within their normal Packages.gz. At least
that's how I understood "ddeb support for PPAs". Adam, does this need
some particular magic to get enabled? Could we do that for the silo
PPAs?

Thanks,

Martin

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