On 14/02/13 18:26, Faidon Liambotis wrote:
Ubuntu has experimented in the past with the concept
of automatically
generating and shipping symbols for *all* packages, packaged up in a
"ddeb"s (same format as .deb) and shipped via a different repository
that isn't mirrored by all of the downstream mirrors.
This was years ago, I'm not sure what has happened since then. I
remember being discussed in Debian as well, but it was never adopted,
probably because noone ever implemented it :)
Good question. There are a few bugs and blueprints about it, and they
show as *implemented*
https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/apt-get-debug-symbols
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/14484
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-announce/2006-September/0001…
What happened, then?