Comment 10 for bug 246843

As bsmedberg said, symbols on Linux are identified by an md5sum of some bits of the ELF file, so there's no need for any sort of mapping. The symbolstore.py script that we use to generate our symbols for nightly/release builds does produce a manifest file that we use for cleanup:
http://symbols.mozilla.org/firefox/firefox-3.5-WINNT-20090624025744-symbols.txt
http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/toolkit/crashreporter/tools/symbolstore.py

(In reply to comment #1)
> You think that ubuntu/distro user base is high enough to make a big difference?

Not now, but when I wrote that we were having serious issues keeping up with our existing load, so any additional user base might have been a problem. I think we've got that fairly well under control, and once my patch to resubmit reports (bug 378528) lands, we'll be able to throttle client-side and be in even better shape.

In short, I think we're in a good place to make this happen now. Let's figure out how to do it!