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Bug#576014: lintian: warn on files in /usr/lib/debug/usr/lib/pyshared/pythonX.Y



Josselin Mouette wrote:
> > Many python-*-dbg packages using python-support ship files in 
> > /usr/lib/debug/usr/lib/pyshared/pythonX.Y/, likely as a result of 
> > dh_strip'ping files in /usr/lib/pyshared/pythonX.Y/. However, this is 
> > wrong, as gdb will never look into that directory; 
> > /usr/lib/debug/usr/lib/pymodules/pythonX.Y/ should be used instead.
> 
> This is true, but it would be much better to fix dh_strip to use build
> IDs instead of having to warn maintainers of the resulting brokenness.

Why does gdb not look for the debug symbols where --add-gnu-debuglink
has recorded them to be in this case?

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