Bug#299578: lintian: check that -dbg packages are using separate debugging info

2008-11-30 Thread Matt Taggart
> It's unfortunately fairly hard for lintian to do this since lintian checks > one package at a time and would need to do cross-package checking to match > up the binaries with the -dbg package. Ah right, darn. I guess it could at least do some sanity checks on the value of ".gnu_debuglink" but

Bug#299578: lintian: check that -dbg packages are using separate debugging info

2008-11-30 Thread Russ Allbery
Matt Taggart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > That check is good, but what I was thinking with the original bug is that > you should check the binaries for the ".gnu_debuglink" and make sure that > what it's pointing at exists and is in the right place in the -dbg package. It's unfortunately fairl

Bug#299578: lintian: check that -dbg packages are using separate debugging info

2008-11-30 Thread Matt Taggart
forgot to cc the bug.. > On Tue, 2008-06-24 at 23:24 +0100, Adam D. Barratt wrote: > > Hi, > > > > On Mon, 2005-03-14 at 20:08 -0800, Matt Taggart wrote: > > > binutils and gdb now have support for putting debugging info into a separ > ate > > > file. So you build things debugable and you get a

Bug#299578: lintian: check that -dbg packages are using separate debugging info

2008-11-28 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Tue, 2008-06-24 at 23:24 +0100, Adam D. Barratt wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, 2005-03-14 at 20:08 -0800, Matt Taggart wrote: > > binutils and gdb now have support for putting debugging info into a > > separate > > file. So you build things debugable and you get a separate file with all > > the >

Bug#299578: lintian: check that -dbg packages are using separate debugging info

2008-06-24 Thread Adam D. Barratt
Hi, On Mon, 2005-03-14 at 20:08 -0800, Matt Taggart wrote: > binutils and gdb now have support for putting debugging info into a separate > file. So you build things debugable and you get a separate file with all the > debugging info and a normal binary that contains a pointer to this info. This

Bug#299578: lintian: check that -dbg packages are using separate debugging info

2005-03-14 Thread Matt Taggart
Package: lintian Version: 1.23.8 Severity: wishlist binutils and gdb now have support for putting debugging info into a separate file. So you build things debugable and you get a separate file with all the debugging info and a normal binary that contains a pointer to this info. This is really c