Icedove is the Thunderbird email client rebranded by Debian.

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Debugging

Sometimes you need some debug info for tracking down problems, for example to give the maintainer more useful info if you have some trouble with Icedove. To get a digestible output while debugging the application (icedove and used librarys) must have so named "debugging symbols". For the normal use this symbols inside the application not nessesary.

Preparation

There some depencies to get a propper debug output. May be you need to install some additional packages. Once the applications with the debbuging symbols and the tools to get the output while debugging. Boths are nessesary. You will need to install: