[lintian] 01/01: checks/binaries.desc: Mention the lack of the "-g" flag as a common cause for debug-file-with-no-debug-symbols tag. (Closes: #878806)

[Chris Lamb <chris@chris-lamb.co.uk>]

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commit 9db324c2487ad26d07eb42f71c33141deab837bb
Author: Adrian Bunk <bunk@debian.org>
Date:   Mon Oct 16 22:40:22 2017 +0300

    checks/binaries.desc: Mention the lack of the "-g" flag as a common cause for debug-file-with-no-debug-symbols tag. (Closes: #878806)
    
    Signed-off-by: Chris Lamb <lamby@debian.org>
---
 checks/binaries.desc | 2 ++
 debian/changelog     | 4 ++++
 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/checks/binaries.desc b/checks/binaries.desc
index 73f789a..708ad26 100644
--- a/checks/binaries.desc
+++ b/checks/binaries.desc
@@ -424,6 +424,8 @@ Ref: #668437
 Info: The binary is installed as a detached "debug symbols" ELF file,
  but it does not appear to have debug information associated with it.
  .
+ A common cause is not passing <tt>-g</tt> to GCC when compiling.
+ .
  Implementation detail: Lintian checks for the ".debug_line" and the
  ".debug_str" sections.  If either of these are present, the binary
  is assumed to contain debug information.
diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 17ea642..9e20c3f 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -2,6 +2,10 @@ lintian (2.5.56) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
 
   XXX: generate tag summary
 
+  * checks/binaries.desc:
+    + [CL] Apply patch from Adrian Bunk to mention the lack of the "-g"
+      flag as a common cause for the debug-file-with-no-debug-symbols tag.
+      (Closes: #878806)
   * checks/conffiles.pm, checks/{debconf,files,scripts}.desc:
     + [CL] Apply patch from Ville Skyttä <ville.skytta@iki.fi> to fix a
       number of spelling mistakes.  (Closes: #878446)

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