Re: bug reports

[Mike Dupont <jamesmikedupont googlemail com>]

thanks will get in touch Stephan, can you give me some tips on
debugging, i am looking for a gdb equiv.thanks
mike

On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 5:49 PM, Stephen Shaw <sshaw decriptor com> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 11:23 PM, Mike  Dupont
> <jamesmikedupont googlemail com> wrote:
>> I have been testing f-spot on debian unstable in chroot and on ubuntu
>>
>> Debian :
>> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=688226
>> which is is similar to this (2011)
>> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=626662
>>
>> Launchpad :
>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/f-spot/+bug/1053529
>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/f-spot/+bug/1052889
>>
>> Also as I reported before I cannot build from git using only debian packages
>> it seems that it needs 4 other packages also from git to build
>> monodevelop produces a good error message.
>>
>> Another problem is that the sln file is missing from the debian sources,
>> how can I debug the debian built binaries, is there a command line
>> debugger for debian?
>> thanks
>> mike
>>
>
> Hi, thanks for testing f-spot.  Every bit helps.  I'm probably won't
> have time this weekend to look closely at these bugs, but I'll see
> what I can do.  If not probably next week.
>
> As for building from git, there are several packages that are needed,
> and the configure stuff needs to be updated.  When I tested this on my
> ubuntu 12.04 VM I was able to build it with just what was in the
> ubuntu repositories.
>
> I didn't do anything with debian packages, so I'm not sure why its not
> there.  I've changed enough though, that I recommend only working with
> git master.  I'd like to get some more testing in on that and slowly
> get it ready for at least a tag if not a release also.
>
> If you are on irc (sshaw), I can probably help you get through the git
> master build faster than over email.  I'll leave that up to you.
>
> Thanks!
> Stephen Shaw



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