tags 656498 + patch thanks On 01/19/2012 01:11 PM, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: > Something is amiss in how the fontforge-dbg package is generated. > perhaps these symbols belong to the fontforge-nox binary? yes, this is indeed what's happening. if i force fontforge-nox and fontforge-dbg to be installed together, then "gdb fontforge" doesn't produce the error messages, and any backtraces are complete. debian/rules is producing debug symbols for fontforge-nox instead of the x11 package. i just committed r4429 (attached here), which appears to resolve the problem for me. --dkg
commit 44e4ccaa1c368f076a352ac7c6e09776d1053999
Author: dkg <dkg@7376ef65-540e-0410-8a1a-a90064c4b4ec>
Date: Thu Jan 19 19:43:49 2012 +0000
do not keep debugging symbols from fontforge-nox (Closes: #656498)
git-svn-id: svn+ssh://svn.debian.org/srv/svn.debian.org/svn/pkg-fonts/packages/fontforge/trunk@4429 7376ef65-540e-0410-8a1a-a90064c4b4ec
diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 10d8568..0b80c43 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -4,6 +4,8 @@ fontforge (0.0.20110222-8) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
* Fix memory corruption when moving spline points via upstream patch by
Paul Flo Williams
Closes: #656443
+ * ensure fontforge-dbg gets symbols from X11-capable fontforge
+ Closes: #656498
-- Christian Perrier <bubulle@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jan 2012 19:52:54 +0100
diff --git a/debian/rules b/debian/rules
index b9e9a1d..91571bf 100755
--- a/debian/rules
+++ b/debian/rules
@@ -161,7 +161,7 @@ binary-common:
dh_installmime
dh_installman
dh_link
- dh_strip --dbg-package=fontforge-dbg
+ dh_strip --exclude=fontforge-nox --dbg-package=fontforge-dbg
dh_compress
dh_fixperms
dh_makeshlibs
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