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Reply-To: "Peter Lekensteyn" <lekensteyn@gmail.com>
To: submit@bugs.debian.org
Subject: [Patch] Include a package containing debugging symbols
Package: xserver-xorg-input-synaptics
Version: 1.5.0-2
Tags: patch
When X segfaulted on the touchpad driver, it produced a backtrace without
symbolic names. The attached patch makes the debugging symbols available
in the xserver-xorg-input-synaptics-dbg package. In case the patch does
not show up properly, a copy of this patch can be found on
http://pastebin.com/22xJ1Kgv
diff -Nur a/debian/control b/debian/control
--- a/debian/control 2011-12-22 16:02:42.000000000 +0100
+++ b/debian/control 2011-12-22 16:00:59.621256053 +0100
@@ -66,3 +66,16 @@
This package contains the development headers for the Synaptics input
driver found in xserver-xorg-input-synaptics. Non-developers likely have
little use for this package.
+
+Package: xserver-xorg-input-synaptics-dbg
+Architecture: any
+Section: debug
+Priority: extra
+Depends:
+ xserver-xorg-input-synaptics (= ${binary:Version}),
+ ${misc:Depends}
+Description: Synaptics TouchPad driver for X.Org server - debugging symbols
+ xserver-xorg-input-synaptics provides an input driver for the X.Org X server
+ to enable advanced features of the Synaptics Touchpad.
+ .
+ This package contains the debugging symbols for xserver-xorg-input-synaptics.
diff -Nur a/debian/rules b/debian/rules
--- a/debian/rules 2011-12-22 16:02:42.000000000 +0100
+++ b/debian/rules 2011-12-22 15:55:47.845248936 +0100
@@ -15,3 +15,5 @@
%:
dh $@ --with quilt,autoreconf,xsf --builddirectory=build/
+dh_override_dh_strip:
+ dh_strip --dbg-package=xserver-xorg-input-synaptics-dbg
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