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Re: dh_shlibdeps and -dbg packages



On Thu, 2008-01-17 at 23:58 +0000, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 02:50:09PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
> > Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org> writes:
> > > Hm, dh_shlibdeps prunes /usr/lib/debug when looking for ELF executables.
> > > This was apparently done when adding support for split debugging symbols
> > > files: see #215670.
> > >
> > > This looks like a bug to me, since /usr/lib/debug is used for "real"
> > > unstripped libraries too. Just filed #461339 on debhelper.
> > 
> > Hm, perhaps you should instead file a bug against any package (other than
> > libc6) which uses /usr/lib/debug for real unstripped libraries.  Shouldn't
> > everyone use detached debugging symbols now, or is there really enough
> > utility in building a separate debugging version libraries to warrant the
> > additional user complexity of using them?
> 
> I understand from Matthias that Python modules benefit noticeably from a
> separate debugging build.

python core definitely does - the debug build adds instrumentation that
has an overhead and is not included in the non-debug builds because of
that.

I'd expect the same macros to do this in python modules, though I don't
know for sure.

-Rob
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