New components were added to the repositories:

release-dbgsym and

trunk-dbgsym

These components contains debugging symbol packages for mythtv, mplayer and others. Those are useful for generating backtraces should a program crash and you want to help to fix it.

If you have found a way to consistently reproduce a crash ; enable the release-dbgsym or trunk-dbgsym component.

For example, for Karmic you would change:

deb http://www.avenard.org/files/ubuntu-repos karmic release

into:

deb http://www.avenard.org/files/ubuntu-repos karmic release release-dbgsym

The name of the debugging package would be:

xxxx-dbgsym

where xxx would be the name of the standard package. So if you found that the crash occurs in a program like mplayer do:

sudo apt-get install mplayer-dbgsym

then reproduce the crash and generate a backtrace to report the bug upstream.