Re: -dbg package for a suite - one libfoo-dbg package sufficient?
On Mon, Nov 26, 2007 at 03:44:14PM +0000, Daniel Leidert wrote:
> From a complete suite I build several packages: a library, a -dev, a
> plugin package for mozilla-based browsers and two packages that contain
> some applications.
>
> Now I got 2 crash reports during a short time. I normally rebuilt the
> packages with the nostrip option to get better backtraces. But now I
> think about adding a -dbg package. No problem so far.
>
> But: the packages for the plugin and the applications are very small, so
> I think creating own -dbg packages for them is not sufficient. But am I
> allowed to create just one -dbg package for all relevant packages? If
> yes, would it be ok to put all debugging symbols in the libfoo-dbg
> package or better in a foo-dbg package?
I think it would be reasonable to put all of the symbols into the one dbg
package. Presumably if you're intending to debug the plugin or application,
the symbols for the shared library would be useful too, and if the plugin
and application packages are small them their symbol tables would presumably
be similarly small, so people aren't wasting massive amounts of traffic (to
download) and disk space to store the unnecessary symbol tables if they just
want to debug the library.
- Matt
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