ABRT frustrating for users and developers

[Jiri Moskovcak]

On 01/18/2010 12:58 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Tony Nelson<tonynelson at georgeanelson.com>  writes:
>> On 10-01-17 12:32:17, Mail Lists wrote:
>>> Someone else asked this earlier - but why do users need the
>>> debug-info packages - only the debugger looking at the tracebacks
>>> needs this. So seems installing the debug files on every desktop/
>>> server that has a problem is much less efficient than just on the dev
>>> computer who needs the info - no?
>
>> Apparently Linux has no mini-dump facility, so the upload of the whole
>> core dump file would be onerous as well.
>
> Not to mention that savvy users will refuse to consider doing any
> such thing.  A full core dump would in many cases contain private
> information, and you can't easily tell what you'd be exposing by
> providing the dump.  With a stack trace you can at least look at the
> text to see what it is you're showing to the world.
>
> Between that issue and the rather monstrous attachment load that dumps
> would put on bugzilla, I think we can safely dismiss the idea.
>
> 			regards, tom lane

Exactly ^.

Jirka
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