Would installing debugging symbols help for reporting bugs?

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Published on 2012-10-03T01:50:43Z Indexed on 2012/10/03 3:50 UTC
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I'm running a beta version of Ubuntu (12.10) and I've been reporting crashes through apport's automated system. I've glanced at the stacktraces for a couple of the issues and noticed a lot of what look like hex addresses and these:

"No symbol table info available."

I was wondering if installing the debugging symbols packages from synaptic would provide better information to package maintainers when I report bugs. In other words, would the stacktrace be more useful if I installed those packages? If so, would installing those packages make any (noticeable) performances differences (will my computer run slower)?

Thanks,

Chris

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