Re: Making debug packages from main GNOME packages
On Fri, 28 Nov 2003, Christian Marillat wrote:
> From: Christian Marillat <marillat.christian@wanadoo.fr>
> Subject: Re: Making debug packages from main GNOME packages
>
> "J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)" <fsmla@xinara.org> writes:
>
> > On Fri, Nov 28, 2003 at 04:56:59 +0100, Christian Marillat wrote:
> >> Robert McQueen <robot101@debian.org> writes:
> >> > adding trivial extra install/copy commands to debian/rules and providing
> >> > a -dbg package is not going to cause an otherwise successful build to
> >> > fail.
> >
> >> This will simply double the build times for each package
> >
> > That is simply not true. As Robert hints, making a -dbg package involves
> > some minor additions to debian/rules which cause it to preserve the
> > debugging information that is generated in a regular build already in a -dbg
> > package. It does _not_ require the source to be built twice.
>
> This is not true for all packages. For example libgnomeui can be build
> with --enable-debug, who is a good option for the -dbg packages but
> surely generate unecessary output for the normal package.
>
> Christian
Which is only a minority of the packages...
Chipzz AKA
Jan Van Buggenhout
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