Package: libc6-dbg Version: 2.11.2-2 Severity: important Hi,
I'd like to point out that there is zero documentation telling you what libc6-dbg is supposed to be useful for. The only thing that it installs in /usr/share/doc are the changelogs that are bytewise identical to those in libc6 and libc6-dev. Are we supposed to link to these libraries when building debuggable applications? Can they be replaced at runtime with some LD_ magic? My simple attempts at setting LD_LIBRARY_PATH to /usr/lib/debug/lib are ignored (since there no libc.so.6 symlinks), and LD_PRELOADing /usr/lib/debug/lib/libc-2.11.2.so just makes my applications segfault. Any help appreciated. -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.33-rc5 (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages libc6-dbg depends on: ii libc6 2.11.2-2 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib libc6-dbg recommends no packages. libc6-dbg suggests no packages. -- no debconf information -- [*Thomas Themel*] The game of life is to keep the SF's score low. If you do [extended contact] something bad in life, the SF gets two points. If you [info provided in] don't do something good you should have done, the SF gets [*message header*] one point. You never score, so the SF always wins. - Erdős -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
