Bug#595161: libc6-dbg: zero documentation
Package: libc6-dbg
Version: 2.11.2-2
Severity: important
Hi,
I'd like to point out that there is zero documentation telling you what libc6-dbg
is supposed to be useful for. The only thing that it installs in /usr/share/doc
are the changelogs that are bytewise identical to those in libc6 and libc6-dev.
Are we supposed to link to these libraries when building debuggable
applications? Can they be replaced at runtime with some LD_ magic? My simple
attempts at setting LD_LIBRARY_PATH to /usr/lib/debug/lib are ignored (since
there no libc.so.6 symlinks), and LD_PRELOADing
/usr/lib/debug/lib/libc-2.11.2.so just makes my applications segfault.
Any help appreciated.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.33-rc5 (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages libc6-dbg depends on:
ii libc6 2.11.2-2 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
libc6-dbg recommends no packages.
libc6-dbg suggests no packages.
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