When an application crashes, most people don't have their distros debug symbol
package installed. This makes the stacktrace less than useful. 

I originally logged a feature request on fdo for PackageKit to do this. This is what I wrote:

http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16359

"...given that PackageKit seems to have the ability to know what package
the app is part of, then the crash reporting software could ask PackageKit to
find out what symbol package is available for the software, then PackageKit
could download and install it after being prompted, then the software provide a
proper stacktrace with symbols. 

This would help alleviate the many, many bug reports without any symbols. I'd
imagine it would certainly help the app developers out!"

However, Richard Hughes has suggested that the feature request would be better put towards the bug-buddy devs. He wrote that:

"Yes, although I don't think this should be part of PackageKit - I think the
application just needs to /use/ PackageKit to install the correct packages. I
think that bug-buddy really needs to be patched to use PackageKit rather than
make any modifications to PK itself. Could you open a bug against bug-buddy and
see how receptive they are there? Thanks."

So I'm wondering if this seems to be a good idea? Certain I've not seen bug-buddy be able to do this, but I certainly have seen quite a lot of bug reports without readable stack traces due to a lack of debug symbols. 

What do people think?