Comment 6 for bug 253904

I just got pointed at this bug when asking for intrepid linux-image-debug packages on IRC.

I see how some might think it makes sense to throw kernel debug packages with normal debug packages. However I disagree.

Debug information for kernel+modules is special because it is needed for low level debugging tools like systemtap and oprofile, which are both available in the normal archive. Especially oprofile is very useful to benchmark and/or troubleshoot servers, I don't think you should have to enable a ddebs repo just to do this. Also, how do you even figure out that they are on ddebs? And how do you handle upgrades from hardy for people who use this kind of tools?

A smaller problem, is that the package are not really available on ddebs either. The packages are on http://ddebs.ubuntu.com/pool/main/l/linux/, but they are not in the Packages files so you can't install them using APT.

One bigger problem that will prevent me from installing them is that bug 185625 (sign the repository at ddebs.ubuntu.com) is not fixed. This means that in Intrepid it is currently impossible to get trusted kernel debug packages. :-(