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.