Re: debugging symbols

[Bart Schuller <schuller@debian.org>]

On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 08:41:47AM +0100, Christian Marillat wrote:
> We are not packaging Gnome 2 for our pleasure but at *your* request. Now
> if you don't want to see debian packaging Gnome 2, tell us clearly.
> 
> We have a policy and we follow this policy.

Christian, this is getting way out of hand. This discussion contains
some very strange reasoning:

Upstream:   We're receiving bug reports from Debian users that we can't do
            much with because they lack debugging symbols.
Debian:     They shouldn't send those to you anyway. We want those bugs.

Which completely misses the point: that neither upstream nor the debian
maintainers will be able to debug without debugging symbols.

We're talking about Gnome 2 here, which is as yet unreleased. Some of it
is even put into debian's *experimental*. What purpose does following
policy to the letter serve here, other than worsening the relationship
with upstream?

And if you *are* following policy to the letter, then reading it is
quite informative:

    Debugging symbols are useful for error diagnosis, investigation of
    core dumps (which may be submitted by users in bug reports), or
    testing and developing the software.  Therefore it is recommended to
    support building the package with debugging information through the
    following interface:
    [...]

I'd say we're all here "testing and developing the software".

-- 
Bart.