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Re: add -debuginfo packages


On Thu, 20 Aug 2009, Christopher Faylor wrote:

> How many people here are capable of firing up a debugger to decode
> problems?

A lot more if they don't have to go through the pain of downloading source
code and figuring out how to correctly build the package.  You'd get
better bug reports faster I think.  How many times have you requested a
more refined test case becuase you didn't want to have to build perl in
order to debug it?

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