[drkonqi] [Bug 308411] Crash reporting assistant cannot install debug symbols

[Kevin Kofler]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=308411

--- Comment #7 from Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler at chello.at> ---
> Shows list of files needing debug info, but none even remotely similar in Yum Extender.

Because those are file names, not package names.

> DUH error message
>
> Not helpful at all.

You mention in comment #6 that you're using Fedora, but what version of Fedora
are you using? (In current Fedora, you should be seeing a Konsole window in
which you can see the actual error message.)

> This is the original window that comes up first asking for "symbols", what ever they
> are.  (Aren't they actually debug packages?)

Debugging symbols are what debugging information contains, and debugging
information is what debug(info) packages contain.

> I will also add that these symbols (?) are needed by the KDE system tool from KDE
> system components, and they have nothing to do with Fedora.

DrKonqi is indeed part of kde-runtime as shipped by KDE, but the script it
invokes to install debugging information is distribution-specific.

> If the KDE person who made the program components failed to create the debug
> components, there would be nothing to package by any one else.

That's not at all how debugging information works. It is generated
automatically by the compiler when the compiler is invoked with correct flags
(-g) and Fedora's build process splits it into separate -debuginfo subpackages,
which you are asked to install. Debugging information is not installed by
default because it is not necessary for normal program operation.

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