Hello!
Tzafrir Cohen has written on Tuesday, 30 October, at 17:04:
>On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 05:18:41PM +0200, Andrej N. Gritsenko wrote:
>> 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?
You mean if the debian/rules had only one rule '%:' with 'dh ${@}'?
Sure, I wouldn't. But simple solution isn't always right solution despite
of Occam's razor - in case if simplification kills functionality. And no
automations are done in Ubuntu either, if you meant that.
>http://packages.ubuntu.com/source/raring/pcmanfm
>I see that the Ubuntu package still produces a -dbg package. I figure
>that this is not what you would expect of an Ubuntu package.
Many of packages in Ubuntu now produce -dbg packages. Just example:
xxx@xxx> grep '^Package: .*-dbg$'
/var/lib/apt/lists/ubuntu.org.ua_ubuntu_dists_oneiric_main_binary-i386_Packages
| wc -l
561
xxx@xxx> grep '^Source:'
/var/lib/apt/lists/ubuntu.org.ua_ubuntu_dists_oneiric_main_binary-i386_Packages
| sort | uniq | wc -l
1354
>Is it possible to change dh_strip's --dbg-package to produce (or not)
>the dbg package in certain build conditions?
Of course, I have an option to dh_strip there to have it but it is
common enough to have described name of debug package in debian/rules.
>The closest thing I see to that is http://bugs.debian.org/510772 .
Yes, I'm agree, to automate debug packaging would be nice thing. For
example, AltLinux (RPM-based distro) has it automated.
With best wishes.
Andriy.
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