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maxima package

  1. Bug #37169
  2. Comment #10

Comment 10 for bug 37169

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Daniel T Chen (crimsun) wrote : Re: [Bug 37169] Re: Maxima hangs on ppc Dapper

On Tue, May 09, 2006 at 06:45:36PM -0000, sam tygier wrote:
> as a workaround for dapper can a debug version be shipped?

It would violate Debian policy, which I'm not fond of doing, for
starters. Furthermore, using the binary in gdb will exhibit the same
crash as before (with debugging symbols stripped). Lastly, I'm not
entirely convinced binutils isn't to blame, but it's far too late in
the release cycle to really do much about it even if it did turn out
to reside in that source package.

To recap: I'm not inclined to use the workaround mentioned in Debian
BTS, but it may have to be activated given the severity of the bug.
Other MOTU should feel free to chime in here and offer their opinions.

Sam, are you able to pinpoint any setbacks (slowness in operation,
etc.) when using an unstripped version?

Thanks,
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