On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 05:18:41PM +0200, Andrej N. Gritsenko wrote: > Hello! > > Stefano Rivera has written on Monday, 29 October, at 16:57: > >Hi Tzafrir (2012.10.29_16:29:06_+0200) > >> While clearing your throat, mind telling us how this works in Ubuntu > >> with PPAs? What happens if you installed a package from a PPA and you > >> want to generate a backtrace of a program that happens to use that > >> package? > > >> 1. You'll get debug information for the package. > >> 2. You won't get debug information for the package. > >> 3. You may accidentally get debug information for a diffent version of > >> the package. > > >2. It'll tell you that there aren't any debug symbols available. (IIRC) > > >The -dbgsym packages are only generated in primary archive builds. > > I'm sorry to disappoint you about the Ubuntu PPAs but look into my > PPA - https://launchpad.net/~andrej-rep/+archive/ppa/+packages - to see > all those dbg packages. And users were used them to give me feedback to > bugs with full backtrace.
But if you followed the Ubuntu way, you wouldn't have generated a -dbg package for it, right? http://packages.ubuntu.com/source/raring/pcmanfm I see that the Ubuntu package still produces a -dbg package. I figure that this is not what you would expect of an Ubuntu package. Is it possible to change dh_strip's --dbg-package to produce (or not) the dbg package in certain build conditions? The closest thing I see to that is http://bugs.debian.org/510772 . (I figure that there is also the issue of source-only uploads with regards to this) -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il | | a Mutt's tzaf...@cohens.org.il | | best tzaf...@debian.org | | friend -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20121030170359.gy12...@pear.tzafrir.org.il
