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Re: Bug#336698: dh_strip: debug data going to the wrong place



Steve Langasek wrote:

> Sorry, you're completely wrong.  The files installed in
> /usr/lib/debug/usr/lib are detached symbol files, that are loaded
> automatically by gdb -- *not* using LD_LIBRARY_PATH; and gdb looks for
> detached symbol files by prepending /usr/lib/debug to the full path of the
> original object file.  So there's no debhelper bug here.  If there are
> detached symbol files that aren't working, that bug must lie elsewhere.

Hmm.  Then what are those files in /usr/lib/debug
(not /usr/lib/debug/<path>)?  I always thought those were the detached
symbol files, but I guess they must be something else -- what?

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