Re: Making debug packages from main GNOME packages
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.
Ray
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