PPAs should generate debug symbols by default
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Launchpad itself |
Won't Fix
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
PPAs can generate debug symbol packages, however the option is not enabled by default and is only discovered if after creation of the PPA you go to the "Change details" page. As a result most PPAs don't have this option enabled and it becomes difficult to solve crashes in such programs.
I have run into this myself with multiple Ubuntu customers and other community users have also hit this issue such as in Bug #1774618
I appreciate that most likely this is the case because debug symbol packages are large, however hopefully perhaps that decision can be reviewed in 2019 given the abundance of storage relative to even a decade ago.
If it's not possible to enable them by default, I think a good change would be to simply surface the setting during PPA creation instead of having to go through the extra details step. It would make it much easier for people to choose yes if they know it will help [because the change details page is not very discoverable, and this step is easy to forget], and many users are likely to leave it as the default and still save space if that is the real problem with enabling it by default.
+1 from me.