KDE4.3 beta issues

[Gene Heskett]

On Thursday 21 May 2009, Derek Broughton wrote:
>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

+1000.  We have the same problems with all distros.

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