Package: debhelper Version: 8.1.6 Severity: normal Hi,
when using cdbs, adding a Package: foo-dbg to debian/control will have the result that cdbs passes --dbg-package=foo-dbg to dh_strip for all binary packages, e.g. dh_strip -pfooA --dbg-package=foo-dbg dh_strip -pfooB --dbg-package=foo-dbg dh_strip -pfooC --dbg-package=foo-dbg It is not possible to omit --dbg-package for a certain binary package. If you are building multiple flavors of the same binary package, this behaviour is not wanted, as you would overwrite the debugging symbols. So in several GNOME packages we use a "trick" specifying an empty dbg package, like this: DEB_DH_STRIP_ARGS_$(UDEB_PKG) = --dbg-package= With compat level 8, this no longer works and you get "Option dbg-package requires an argument" I can't find any relevant changes in debhelpers' changelog or in the debhelper man page related to this change in behaviour and if this was intended. It would be nice if we could continue to use the --dbg-package= "trick" for packages using cdbs. Thanks, Michael -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (200, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.39-1-486 Locale: LANG=de_DE.utf8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages debhelper depends on: ii binutils 2.21.51.20110523-1 The GNU assembler, linker and bina ii dpkg-dev 1.16.0.3 Debian package development tools ii file 5.04-5+b1 Determines file type using "magic" ii html2text 1.3.2a-15 advanced HTML to text converter ii man-db 2.6.0.2-1 on-line manual pager ii perl 5.12.3-7 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction ii perl-base 5.12.3-7 minimal Perl system ii po-debconf 1.0.16+nmu1 tool for managing templates file t debhelper recommends no packages. Versions of packages debhelper suggests: ii dh-make 0.58 tool that converts source archives -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
