Bug#595161: libc6-dbg: zero documentation
severity 595161 wishlist
retitle 595161 dh_strip should add a README.Debian file explaining how to use the -dbg package
thanks
On Wed, Sep 01, 2010 at 05:51:02PM +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
> Thomas Themel a écrit :
> > 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 l=
> > ibc6-dbg
> > is supposed to be useful for. The only thing that it installs in /usr/sha=
> > re/doc
> > are the changelogs that are bytewise identical to those in libc6 and libc=
> > 6-dev.
> >
> > Are we supposed to link to these libraries when building debuggable
> > applications? Can they be replaced at runtime with some LD_ magic? My si=
> > mple
> > attempts at setting LD_LIBRARY_PATH to /usr/lib/debug/lib are ignored (si=
> > nce
> > 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.
> >
>
> There is nothing to do, gdb use them by default, like the zillions of
> -dbg packages that are already in the archive.
>
As it makes no sense to add documentation to all -dbg packages manually,
debhelper could probably automatically add a README.Debian file to the
-dbg package explaining that the user that the package is automatically
used by gdb and he has nothing to do.
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