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Re: Mandatory -dbg packages for libraries?



Hendrik Sattler <debian@hendrik-sattler.de> writes:
> Am Sonntag 22 April 2007 21:39 schrieb Neil Williams:

>> Apart from those limitations, is there a *technical* reason why -dbg
>> packages should not be available? Is it worth taking to -policy?

> You essentially need to build all library packages 2 times, then.

Actually, you don't.  See the features of dh_strip introduced at debhelper
level V5.  And of course you can do the same thing by hand.

gdb will read the resulting detached debugging symbols automatically.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>



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