Bug#299578: lintian: check that -dbg packages are using separate debugging info
On Tue, 2008-06-24 at 23:24 +0100, Adam D. Barratt wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Mon, 2005-03-14 at 20:08 -0800, Matt Taggart wrote:
> > binutils and gdb now have support for putting debugging info into a separate
> > file. So you build things debugable and you get a separate file with all the
> > debugging info and a normal binary that contains a pointer to this info. This
> > is really cool because now we don't need to have two copies of ever binary we
> > want debugable, just the normal package and then the debugging add on. I guess
> > dh_strip now has support for doing this by default when generating -dbg
> > packages.
> >
> > I would like to see linitian check binaries of packages that support
> > debugging. As this is not yet policy it would just be a warning I guess.
>
> lintian 1.23.43 introduced the "debug-file-should-use-detached-symbols"
> test, which checks files installed under /usr/lib/debug to ensure that
> they are in fact detached symbol files. Was that the kind of check you
> were after?
Ping? :-)
Regards,
Adam
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