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

[Andrew Starr-Bochicchio <a.starr.b@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 4:34 AM, Karl Lattimer <karl@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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.

There is indeed a repository for debug symbol packages, ddebs.ubuntu.com

See: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingProgramCrash

Though this does raise the point that they could be easier to enable.
I imagine that this would be a fairly trivial patch to
software-properties-gtk.

- Andrew Starr-Bochicchio