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Debuginfo tests are highly sensitive to debugger versions and thus very fragile

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Description

AFAIK debugger visualization output usually don't guarantee output format stability, which as a corollary of #126092, this means that our debuginfo test suite is extremely fragile and prone to breakage from debugger version updates in CI.

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Research direction

Start by reading this issue alongside #126092 and examining the debuginfo test suite and its CI debugger-version dependencies. Define which visualization output should remain stable and make the tests resilient to debugger updates; done means routine debugger version changes no longer cause widespread unrelated test failures.

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Assessment

Tech stack
rust
Domain
compilers, testing-qa
Issue type
Refactor
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
28/100

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