Re: meaningful backtraces for crashes
Thanks Paul for the concise explanation. This helped me fixing the
error within minutes!
Cheers,
Nico
On Sun, Feb 1, 2015 at 4:37 AM, Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org> wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 31, 2015 at 8:40 PM, Nico Schlömer wrote:
>
>> For Mixxx [1], I would like for users to produce meaningful backtraces
>> in case of crashes (see [2]). What build options are needed or useful
>> for debugging purposes? What's the canonical way for adding them to
>> the Debian packages?
>
> Until [1] gets implemented, you will need to use debhelper 9, add a
> mixxx-dbg package to debian/control and override dh_strip to include
> the --dbg-package parameter:
>
> debian/compat:
>
> 9
>
> debian/rules:
>
> override_dh_strip:
> dh_strip --dbg-package=mixxx-dbg
>
> debian/control:
>
> Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 9)
>
> Package: mixxx-dbg
> Section: debug
> Architecture: any
> Priority: extra
> Depends:
> mixxx (= ${binary:Version}),
> ${misc:Depends}
> Description: debug files for mixxx
> This package contains debug information for mixxx....
> .
> It can be used to debug mixxx using a debugger if it crashes due to
> programming errors.
>
> 1. https://wiki.debian.org/AutomaticDebugPackages
>
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> pabs
>
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