[NBLUG/talk] Debugging packages on Debian?

[Troy Arnold]

On Mon, Aug 07, 2006 at 10:23:43PM -0700, Lincoln Peters wrote:
> Is there an easy way to download and install packages on Debian that are 
> compiled with debugging code, so that if a program crashes, I can obtain a 
> usable coredump and/or backtrace to send to the author?  I could probably use 
> apt-build to compile my own debugger-friendly binaries, but I would hope that 
> there's an easier way (i.e. an apt repository that contains pre-built, 
> debugger-friendly builds of every package in the official apt repository).

It depends on the package.  Some small percentage ship an unstripped
version, and all of the package names end in -dbg.

apt-cache search dbg

-troy