ABRT frustrating for users and developers

[Jiri Moskovcak]

On 01/17/2010 06:49 PM, Camilo Mesias 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?
>
> This is a good point, the users shouldn't really have to install
> debuginfo for a one-off use. It would be better for a central server
> or service to have access to all the debuginfo files at all versions.
> The back end processing of symbol-less backtraces + version info to
> fully annotated ones could be automated.

There has been such idea called debugfs, but it was cancelled (don't 
remember the reason), but I agree that would be probably the best 
option, because when user creates the backtrace he needs to install the 
whole debuginfo, but then GDB reads just a few kilobytes.

Jirka
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