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This was originally built by RedHat and they are adding support for Fedora's package manager, which should make debugging in future versions of Fedora an amazing experience. The ability to debug any application on your machine with no effort.

Debuginfod does support debian packages as well (integrating with -dbg pacages), but it does not support src packages. The documentation mentions that this is tricky.

Very small. I asked before and the consensus was that nobody wants to maintain it. There was a project before (Fedora’s dark server) which died.

That said, debian started indexing build ids in the repos so at least for dwarf files there is a barebones index now. Sadly not for the companion executables.

The debug server kinda builds upon the dbg/src packages. So all the maintainers of the distributions have to do is maintain the compatibility of the dbg/src package structure (which looks like happening for the RPM format) and to host a debug server in addition to the existing package servers.

Arch may do this as they still haved figured out how distribute debug packages.