Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (850 mails)

[Andras Mantia <amantia@xxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday 06 September 2006 20:11, vetter wrote:
> On Wed, 6 Sep 2006, Andras Mantia wrote:
> > On Wednesday 06 September 2006 17:41, Andreas Jaeger wrote:
> > > >> gdb
> > > >
> > > > Â  ^^ remove?
> > >
> > > What do others think?
> >
> > gdb is needed to get backtraces e.g for KDE application. How much
> > useful those are without -debug packages is another question, but I
> > think we should have this by default (and we can just tell the
> > users to install the -debug version if more info is needed).
>
> what if we make the *-debug packages require gdb?

After a quick test the backtrace generated can be completely useless 
without the -debug package or it can be useful but without line 
numbers. So I would rather make gdb a dependency on kdebase than on the 
-debug packages.
I wonder if GNOME or other application have a similar backtrace 
generation tool or not, but if they do, the same dependency should be 
introduced there as well.

Andras

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