Package: lintian Version: 2.5.55 Severity: minor Tags: patch Mention the most (?) common cause of debug-file-with-no-debug-symbols:
diff --git a/checks/binaries.desc b/checks/binaries.desc index 73f789a59..708ad263a 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.
