I would like to propose to integrate the installation of required debug packages into the systemsettings module where the user can select if (s)he is willing to provide telemetry data. Writing bug reports when the system crashed is part of user feedback. Debug packages are not installed as a standard in many distros. I believe it is a good place to provide an option to install these packages. When a user is willing to provide telemetry data, he is likely to be willing to provide a a bug report when the system crashes.
DrKonqi has the ability to semi-automatically install the necessary debug packages before uploading a crash report. Why do we need something else?
Indeed.
I prefer to have them installed. When a crash occurs, there is not always (good) internet or the extra time for installing them. I reinstall from time to time, but keep my /home-folder and settings. So if there was a permanent setting here, the packages could be automatically installed during an update. Telemetry is the place where the users decides: I would like to contribute to make this software better, so this may be the right place. But may be in the Discover settings, this could be alternatively or both.
That use case seems far out for the work that this feature would need. We are talking about hundreds of gigabytes of additional data that would get installed since there is no trivial way of telling whether a package is involved in our software or not, meaning we'd have to install all the debug packages for the distro. Conversely if we were to try to come up with heuristics to determine which packages are very likely to be relevant to our software the engineering cost of the feature blows up. If you reinstall a lot, why don't you just reinstall the previously installed dbg packages?
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