[Fedora-packaging] Importance of debuginfo packages
Jesse Keating
jkeating at redhat.com
Mon Aug 21 16:48:05 UTC 2006
On Monday 21 August 2006 12:26, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
> Is it really? I don't know how to use debuginfo packages, so I don't
> know if there's any point to having them if they're not complete.
>
> Obviously we know that a debuginfo package with no files should be
> disabled, so what needs to be there before there's any point to
> enabling it?
Enough so that running gdb (gnu debugger) on the application will produce a
meaningful traceback. This helps a lot in figuring out where / why an
application is crashing. Without a debuginfo package you cannot get this
information without recompiling the package and leaving the binaries
unstripped.
--
Jesse Keating
Release Engineer: Fedora
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