forgot to cc the bug.. > On Tue, 2008-06-24 at 23:24 +0100, Adam D. Barratt wrote: > > 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 separ > ate > > > 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 binar > y 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? > > Ping? :-)
Sorry, never got back to this. That check is good, but what I was thinking with the original bug is that you should check the binaries for the ".gnu_debuglink" and make sure that what it's pointing at exists and is in the right place in the -dbg package. I can no longer remember what prompted me to file this bug originally. I must have run into a case where it was broken, but I can't recall the case now... Whatever you decide to do is fine. Thanks, -- Matt Taggart [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
