On Monday 20 April 2015 12:46 PM, David Kalnischkies wrote: > That can be very quickly quite a set of packages. apt ~23, apititude > ~40, mpv (similar to mplayer) ~159, kate (KDEs "notepad") ~465. [0] > That can be tuned by excluding non-libraries, but that has its own > drawbacks (private libraries shared between a very closely related set > of packages for example), aka: > > For a quickshot direct dependencies are probably enough (personal > observation; the times I needed debug symbols for non-direct > dependencies are far and in between, but maybe I am just lucky). > If you wanna go fullcircle, its probably better to analyse a core-dump > for which symbols are needed exactly instead of getting everything. > > I think Ubuntu has a tool dubbed apport-retrace (Debian has it in > experimental only) which is supposed to do that (but I just remember > hearing the name in this context, nothing more) Just FYI. Apport is included in this year's GSoC, for Debian. There are a bunch of Debian specific features we'd like to see. Once those are done, we should be in a better position to propose apport for testing/unstable. And apport will be one of the prime consumers of these debug symbols. So thank you for reviving on this subject. -- Given the large number of mailing lists I follow, I request you to CC me in replies for quicker response
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