KDE4.3 beta issues

[Derek Broughton]

Jerry Lapham wrote:

> On Thursday 21 May 2009 4:53:23 am Myriam Schweingruber wrote:
> 
>>  Hint: if the automatic
>> report starts with "no debugging symbols found" the report is useless,
>> as it wasn't able to track down the error in the code.
>>
>> Sorry if this seems well know by some of you, but at Kubuntu and KDE
>> we get tons of useless reports because of lacking debugging symbols,
>> so I think it's worth mentioning.
> 
> Does that mean that if an app crashes in an official distribution, we
> shouldn't send the automatic report if it starts with "no debugging
> symbols found"?

I'm sure that's what was meant, but imo it's crazy.  If developers _really_ 
want to get usable bug reports from ordinary users the debug versions of the 
apps are what should be distributed.  Asking ordinary users to recompile 
(which is what KDE will do, because they don't realize that in most cases we 
can just download a -dbg package) will get zero response, and then the 
developers close the bug for "insufficient information", creating 
frustration all around.

Not to mention the fact that if an "official" version crashes, there's no 
reason to automatically assume that one compiled with debug symbols will 
crash, or crash in the same place.  It's not the same program.
-- 
derek