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Re: Support for DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS in rules files



On Sun, Apr 22, 2001 at 07:35:01PM -0400, Bob Hilliard wrote:
>      It appears to me that the method recommended in policy section
> 11.1 to support DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS in the rules file requires the
> DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS variable to contain both `debug' and `nostrip' in
> order to generate a package with debugging information included.
> 
>      Is this correct and is this what is intended?

Yes. It's for debugging purposed only. However, if you build a library
package, and you generate a libfoo1, libfoo1-dev and libfoo1-dbg, then
this doesn't apply to you specifically. IOW, it's not the same thing.

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