Re: *-dbg packages and lack of documentation

[Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>]

Adam Majer <adamm@zombino.com> writes:

> Every single -dbg package I have installed seems to be completely
> useless from documentation point of view. This is just an example; I'm
> not singling out this package,
>
> $ apt-file list audacious-dbg
> audacious-dbg: /usr/lib/debug/usr/bin/audacious
> audacious-dbg: /usr/lib/debug/usr/bin/audtool
> audacious-dbg: /usr/lib/debug/usr/lib/libaudclient.so.1.0.0
> audacious-dbg: /usr/lib/debug/usr/lib/libaudid3tag.so.1.0.0
> audacious-dbg: /usr/share/doc/audacious-dbg/changelog.Debian.gz
> audacious-dbg: /usr/share/doc/audacious-dbg/copyright
>
> So now what? I have this installed but it is not in my path. What am I
> suppose to do with this? chroot /usr/lib/debug ?

You're supposed to just run gdb.  The whole point of detached debugging
symbols is that you don't have to do anything special at all; debugging
now just works.

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