Bug#688760: iceweasel: please enable upstream crash reporting

[Julien Cristau]

On Fri, Oct 7, 2016 at 11:42 PM, Mike Hommey <mh at glandium.org> wrote:

> Version: firefox/49.0-4
>
> On Fri, Oct 07, 2016 at 06:52:03PM +0200, Julien Cristau wrote:
> > On Fri, Oct 7, 2016 at 5:14 PM, Sylvestre Ledru <sylvestre at mozilla.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Not yet. If I understood correctly, the way firefox   compresses the
> > > symbol is not managed by breakpad.
> > > My gut feeling is that the final link might fail with an oom.
> > > Maybe Julien has more
> > >
> > Right, AIUI the missing piece is to upload the symbols from our firefox
> > builds (and related libraries) to https://crash-stats.mozilla.
> com/symbols/
> > so crash reports can be properly analyzed.  I'm working on teaching
> > breakpad about compressed debug symbols to make that easier.
>
> Actually, I uploaded the symbols for 49.0-4 manually.
>
> Nice.  Do you plan on doing that for future uploads as well?  Should other
packages such as nss/nspr also get symbols uploaded?  Are there bits of
infrastructure that would make this better / less manual?  I know you
talked to me about post-processing .sym files to point at the VCS, and it
seems objcopy --decompress-debug-sections works around the breakpad issue.

Thanks,
Julien
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