Hi, On Mon, 2005-03-14 at 20:08 -0800, Matt Taggart wrote: > binutils and gdb now have support for putting debugging info into a separate > file. So you build things debugable and you get a separate file with all the > debugging info and a normal binary that contains a pointer to this info. This > is really cool because now we don't need to have two copies of ever binary we > want debugable, just the normal package and then the debugging add on. I > guess > dh_strip now has support for doing this by default when generating -dbg > packages. > > I would like to see linitian check binaries of packages that support > debugging. As this is not yet policy it would just be a warning I guess.
lintian 1.23.43 introduced the "debug-file-should-use-detached-symbols" test, which checks files installed under /usr/lib/debug to ensure that they are in fact detached symbol files. Was that the kind of check you were after? Regards, Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
