"(no debugging symbols found)" reports

[Lubos Lunak]

On Monday 10 of March 2008, Hans Chen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On bugs.kde.org, you see many tracebacks with the line "(no debugging
> symbols found)". As far as I understand, those aren't very useful.

 They can be. Backtraces with debug symbols are better, but the ones without 
them can be useful as well, assuming they are not broken. The fact whether a 
backtrace is broken or not probably does not depend on debug symbols, at 
least not exclusively.

> I'm also under the impression that the majority of these reports involve
> Plasma and its crashes, and that's why I'm writing here.

 So DrKonqi is now part of Plasma too? The right list for this is 
kde-core-devel.

> As a result, I see many comments that say something along the lines "Please
> install the debug packages". I post these myself when I see such a
> traceback.
> I think it would benefit both the user (who doesn't have to feel dumb ;)
> and the developers if this was announced somehow. Just a few sentences in
> the right place could reduce the amount of "useless" bug reports.

 DrKonqi already has support for checking whether a backtrace is useful or 
not, in BackTrace::usefulBacktrace(). If it doesn't detect some that can be 
detected, feel free to fix it.

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