raising Yum's IQ (was: Re: [fedora-java] Re: Fedora Core 5 Wishlist)

[Andrew Haley]

Vadim Nasardinov writes:
 > 
 > >  - The native package would not have access to the sources, and
 > >    would not be able to generate a useful debuginfo package.  This
 > >    would render the packages undebuggable with gdb.
 > 
 > Can you elaborate?  I thought native compilation worked by taking
 > .class files as input.  Where do the sources come in?

You don't debug bytecode: you debug source.  Debuginfo contains
source.

Andrew.