From kfm-devel  Mon Nov 06 11:39:58 2006
From: Kevin Krammer <kevin.krammer () gmx ! at>
Date: Mon, 06 Nov 2006 11:39:58 +0000
To: kfm-devel
Subject: Re: Suggestion for Konquerer developers and delivering "stripped"
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On Monday 06 November 2006 12:06, Thiago Macieira wrote:
> OnThe Road wrote:
> >Guys,
> >I don't know what you are thinking, but if you have
> >any hope at all of going mainstream, you need to come
> >up with an alternate strategy for getting debug info.
>
> And we don't know what you're thinking, but you're way off the mark.
> Either way, thanks for your comments; let's address your remarks.
>
> Setting things straight first: KDE does not ship binaries. At all. Any
> binaries. KDE ships source code.
>
> Distributions ship binaries. So, if you have a qualm or suggestion about
> how to handle debug builds or debug info, it's to your distribution that
> you should be talking. It's they who make the builds and it's they who
> decide how/if to package the debug info.
>
> By the way, one recent trend in distribution policy is to generate
> separate debug packages. If a user is interested in submitting a bug
> report, turning his application into one with proper backtrace is a few
> mouse-clicks away, by installing a new package (which, by the way,
> doesn't impact at all run time!).

On Debian they are called kdelibs-dbg and kdebase-dbg, might be called the=
=20
same for Ubuntu

> >To get Konqueuer to crash, using (XUbuntu 6.06), just
> >go to cnn.com, select the business button. That's it!
> >Gone...every,.. single,.. time...
>
> No crash here. I got redirected to http://money.cnn.com/index.html?cnn=3D=
yes
> and the page loaded just fine. KDE 3.5.5 r594555

Can confirm that it works with Debian's packages for 3.5.5 (with and withou=
t=20
JavaScript enabled, override and globally), however Ubuntu6.06 had 3.5.4 (o=
r=20
something like this) and those are also (very likely modified) Ubuntu=20
packages.

Cheers,
Kevin

=2D-=20
Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer
KDE user support, developer mentoring

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