Re: [Ayatana-dev] How useful are debugging debs for Unity?

[Karl Lattimer <karl@xxxxxxxxxx>]

If ubuntu intends to provide an App store(almost but not quite (TM))
then debugging packages will become essential. 

It would be inconceivable for an app developer to be completely unable
to debug their own work as they're missing debugging symbols. Why would
it "give the consumer a feeling of uncompletedness" I feel it would be
more like completeness, as in the platform is ready for software
development. 

Either way debugging packages are optional, maybe what *could* be done
is to shift them into a debugging repo in a similar way to 'proposed',
and have those debugging repos disabled by default. Even better would be
to do "apt-get debug package" and have a deb-dbg repo in the
sources.list. 

my 2c

K,


On Tue, 2011-01-25 at 10:25 +0100, frederik.nnaji@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> i think debugging is important in alpha releases.
> An LTS e.g. shouldn't ship debuggin packages, unless it is intended to
> give the consumer a feeling of uncompletedness..
> 
> On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 18:01, Jorge O. Castro <jorge@xxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>         Hi,
>         
>         Neil was asking seb about where to get debugging packages for
>         Natty.
>         For those of you unfamiliar with this:
>         https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingProgramCrash
>         
>         I was wondering how useful it would be to add this information
>         to the
>         Unity instructions:
>         https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Unity/InstallationGuide
>         
>         Would having testers installing the debug packages be useful?
>         Should
>         we be encouraging people to have these packages installed
>         before they
>         file bugs?
>         
>         --
>         Jorge Castro
>         Canonical Ltd.
>         http://twitter.com/castrojo
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