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by kelnos 922 days ago
Agreed that cutting-edge software likely needs more frequent debugging, but I don't think that means LTS releases shouldn't be easier to debug.

Consider that you're a big company deploying software to hundreds or thousands of machines, and you hit a difficult-to-diagnose performance issue, crash, etc. You'll very much appreciate if the OS has made it easier for you to debug things.

Put another way, Fedora users/developers might appreciate having frame pointers because they have to debug more frequently, but RHEL/LTS release users might appreciate frame pointers because on the less-frequent occasion when they need to debug, the stakes are much higher.