[ITP] google-breakpad

[Jon TURNEY <jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk>]

These packages contain the minidump analysis part of breakpad, a
multi-platform crash reporting and analysis system using minidumps.

It doesn't make much sense to package the libbreakpad_client crash handling
library, as this conflicts with cygwin's error_start facility.  It might make
some sense to make MinGW cross-compiled packages of libbreakpad_client in the
future.

I can't find this in any major linux distribution, so votes are required.

* google-breakpad-tools

This package contains the minidump_dump and minidump_stackwalk tools

The breakpad_dump_syms tool for generating breakpad symbol files has been
patched to read DWARF debug sections from a PE/COFF file (but see [1]).

The core2md and md2core tools to convert between minidump and core files have
not been ported.

The symsrv_convert tool, which reads PDB debug info from a MS symbol server
and converts it to a breakpad symbol file is very hard to port, as it uses the
MS DIA SDK and ATL.

setup.hint:

category: Devel
requires: libcurl4 libstdc++6
sdesc: "google-breakpad (tools)"
ldesc: "google-breakpad (tools)"
external-source: google-breakpad

* google-breakpad-devel

This package contains libbreakpad, a library for minidump processing.

setup.hint:

category: Devel
requires:
sdesc: "google-breakpad (minidump processing library)"
ldesc: "google-breakpad (minidump processing library)"
external-source: google-breakpad

files:

http://www.dronecode.org.uk/cygwin/x86/release/google-breakpad/google-breakpad-1279-1-src.tar.xz
http://www.dronecode.org.uk/cygwin/x86/release/google-breakpad/google-breakpad-tools/google-breakpad-tools-1279-1.tar.xz
http://www.dronecode.org.uk/cygwin/x86/release/google-breakpad/google-breakpad-devel/google-breakpad-devel-1279-1.tar.xz

license:

BSD 3-Clause License

[1] But this is currently not much use with modules produced by the GNU
toolchain.  breakpad locates the corresponding symbol files using a unique
build-id recorded for each module in the minidump.   For the Windows minidump
writer, this takes the form of a 'CodeView record'.  Modules produced by the
GNU toolchain do not have CodeView records, although I have written an example
patch to add this [2].
[2] https://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2014-01/msg00296.html