Bug#299578: lintian: check that -dbg packages are using separate debugging info

["Adam D. Barratt" <adam@adam-barratt.org.uk>]

Hi,

On Mon, 2005-03-14 at 20:08 -0800, Matt Taggart wrote:
> binutils and gdb now have support for putting debugging info into a separate 
> file. So you build things debugable and you get a separate file with all the 
> debugging info and a normal binary that contains a pointer to this info. This 
> is really cool because now we don't need to have two copies of ever binary we 
> want debugable, just the normal package and then the debugging add on. I guess 
> dh_strip now has support for doing this by default when generating -dbg 
> packages.
> 
> I would like to see linitian check binaries of packages that support 
> debugging. As this is not yet policy it would just be a warning I guess.

lintian 1.23.43 introduced the "debug-file-should-use-detached-symbols"
test, which checks files installed under /usr/lib/debug to ensure that
they are in fact detached symbol files. Was that the kind of check you
were after?

Regards,

Adam