On Sun, 2007-04-22 at 22:31 +0200, Hendrik Sattler wrote: > Am Sonntag 22 April 2007 22:12 schrieb Russ Allbery: > > 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. > > Did you ever try to debug an application compiled with optimizations? <snip> Of course. There are many "undefined behaviour" bugs that will only show up in optimised builds. You have to stop relying on source lines and look at the disassembly, of course. Also, oprofile wants debugging information, and there's no sense in turning optimisations off for that! Ben. -- Ben Hutchings When you say `I wrote a program that crashed Windows', people just stare ... and say `Hey, I got those with the system, *for free*'. - Linus Torvalds
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