gnome-control-center-signon and libaccount-plugin need debug packages

[David King]

The packaging for gnome-control-center-signon and libaccount-plugin does not give debug packages, making it difficult to get useful information from users reporting crashes, such as in bug 1134765.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

David, what do you mean? They have dbgsym like every other binary on the archive:
http://ddebs.ubuntu.com/pool/main/g/gnome-control-center-signon/
http://ddebs.ubuntu.com/pool/main/a/account-plugins

[David King (amigadave)]

Seb, I had no idea what a dbgsym package was before you mentioned it, so would following:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingProgramCrash#Debug_Symbol_Packages

be enough to get a useful stack trace, specifically the -dbgsym instructions?

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

@David: not sure what you are trying to do, the retracer use apport-retrace to fetch the dbgsym and give you a debug stracktrace, that seems to have worked there, looking at https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-control-center/+bug/1122520 comment #3

but yeah, otherwise the dbgsym are just similar to -dbg, enable the ddeb source and you can install debug symbols for any binary (or use apport-retrace if you have an apport report with a dump, it will fetch the dbgsym needed)

[David King (amigadave)]

Thanks for the explanation!