Re: Making debug packages from main GNOME packages

[Christian Marillat <marillat.christian@wanadoo.fr>]

"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