Hi, As of today, dak supports the dbgsym packages built by debhelper and with debhelper/9.20151219 they are now built by default! With this, a decade old idea is now implemented and available for general consumption[1]. :)
* A huge thanks to Ansgar Burchardt for finishing up the remaining
loose ends in dak today. :)
* The debug symbols are available from debug.mirrors.debian.org
- See also [APT-LINE] for installing them via APT
* Currently only experimental and unstable will have dbgsym packages.
- We need changes to Britney to add them to testing.
Quick reminders
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* The dbgsym packages are generated by debhelper and will now appear
in (almost) all debhelper based packages.
* You can disable dbgsym generation:
- in your package by passing "--no-debs" to dh_strip
- in your build by setting DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=noddebs
- in your derivative by patching dh_strip.
* You /can/ migrate your manual "-dbg" package to a "-dbgsym"
- if/when it has no reverse (build-)depends.
- it just requires you to replace "--dbg-package=pkg-dbg" with
"--ddeb-migration='pkg-dbg (<< ${VERSION}~)'
- in a release from now, you can drop --ddeb-migration (and probably
also the "override_dh_strip" if you use the dh-sequencer)
* You are *not* required to migrate your manual "-dbg" packages.
- notably, you should *not* migrate them if they still have reverse
dependencies.
* lintian/2.5.38.1 will complain about an unknown "auto-built-package"
header in dbgsyms. Known issue fixed in the next release of lintian.
Enjoy,
~Niels
[1]
http://meetings-archive.debian.net/pub/debian-meetings/2006/debconf6/theora-unscaled/2006-05-20/tower/Debian_s_Debugging_Debacle-Erinn_Clark__Anthony_Towns.ogg
I said decade, though the idea is probably older than this video... :)
[2] The apt-sources line (for unstable) should be something like:
deb http://debug.mirrors.debian.org/debian-debug/ unstable-debug main
Note the use of "unstable-debug" instead of "unstable".
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