Code review comment for lp://staging/~shnatsel/apport/dont-break-report-if-dbgsym-is-outdated

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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote :

I'm not that keen on this, to be honest. Due to the brittle nature of ddebs.u.c. there is little chance of ddebs.u.c. "fixing itself" in a lot of cases, so you'd just end up with a lot of retracer aborts and other reports piling up.

Also, having one outdated dbsym is often not the end of the world: in many cases the crash doesn't even go through that one library or extra dependency, so it retraces perfectly well.

We are currently planning to enable ddeb support on Launchpad proper, so that we can directly fetch the correct ddeb version from the librarian. That way we'll never have outdated ddebs any more, and confusions like this cannot happen any more.

review: Disapprove

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