Bug 428021

Summary:	evolution-debuginfo missing files?
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Brian Long <brilong>
Component:	evolution	Assignee:	Matthew Barnes <mbarnes>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Brian Long 2008-01-08 18:46:35 UTC

Description of problem:
I am trying to diagnose why Evolution is freezing while I type messages.  I
installed various packages:
evolution-2.12.2-2.fc8
evolution-data-server-1.12.2-1.fc8
evolution-data-server-debuginfo-1.12.1-2.fc8
evolution-data-server-devel-1.12.2-1.fc8
evolution-debuginfo-2.12.1-3.fc8
evolution-help-2.12.2-2.fc8
evolution-webcal-2.12.0-1.fc8
evolution-webcal-debuginfo-2.12.0-1.fc8
glib2-debuginfo-2.14.2-1.fc8
gtk2-debuginfo-2.12.1-5.fc8
gtkhtml3-debuginfo-3.16.1-1.fc8
NetworkManager-debuginfo-0.7.0-0.6.6.svn3138.fc8
pango-debuginfo-1.18.3-1.fc8

If I run "gdb evolution" it complains as follows:
warning: the debug information found in
"/usr/lib/debug//usr/bin/evolution.debug" does not match "/usr/bin/evolution"
(CRC mismatch).

warning: Missing the separate debug info file:
/usr/lib/debug/.build-id/80/db6781dbac86f5c2d7da79e5f7e51ae0d6f42d.debug
(no debugging symbols found)

Is evolution-debuginfo faulty or am I missing something simple?

Comment 1 Brian Long 2008-01-08 18:58:10 UTC

So I failed to enable updates-debuginfo when I installed the debuginfo packages.
 Shouldn't the -debuginfo packages require an exact version of their
corresponding base package?   For example, evolution-debuginfo-2.12.2-2.fc8
should require: evolution-2.12.2-2.fc8.  This would avoid the simple mistake I
made.  :-)

Comment 2 Matthew Barnes 2008-01-08 20:00:42 UTC

SPEC files generally do not have explicit requirements for their own debuginfo
packages.  RPM automates that whole process through its macros, which are
defined in the redhat-rpm-config package and apply to all packages.

I'm told the reason for the lack of an exact version requirement in the
debuginfo packages is to allow you to disable your debuginfo repo and update
your system without forcing you to first remove all your debuginfo packages. 
The problem is we don't really have an automated way of garbage collecting
obsolete debuginfo packages that are just taking up space on one's system.

In any case, this is beyond the scope of the Evolution packages so I'm going to
close this as NOTABUG.