A plan to support source code indexing on debuginfod.d.n

Speaker: Sergio Durigan Junior

Track: Packaging, policy, and Debian infrastructure

Type: Long talk (45 minutes)

Room: Somin

Time: Aug 01 (Thu): 14:30

Duration: 0:40

Debian’s debuginfod instance (https://debuginfod.debian.net) was initially set up in 2021. There were minor hiccups in the beginning, but it has been a long time since anything noteworthy had to be done there. For better or worse…

Nowadays, among the many GNU/Linux distributions who offer a debuginfod service, ours the is simplest, least useful one. We don’t support source code indexing, don’t have an official debian.org address, and could do better overall when it comes to having a welcoming debugging environment in our system.

I would like to present my plan to address one of the most important issues affecting the service now: lack of indexed source code. Yes, it is possible to serve source code (and exectuables) with debuginfod!

Let’s discuss (and hopefully reach a consensus) on how to best adjust our build system to make source code more discoverable.