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separate debugging info
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regarding [checks/binaries] check that -dbg packages are using separate
debugging info
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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 cool because now we don't need to have two copies of ever binary we
want debugable, just the normal package and then the debugging add on. I guess
dh_strip now has support for doing this by default when generating -dbg
packages.
I would like to see linitian check binaries of packages that support
debugging. As this is not yet policy it would just be a warning I guess.
My guess at implementing:
For packages that support debugging (I think lintian already determines this
somehow right?), check each binary for the pointer to the separate debug info
and printing a warning if not present. I think the check for support can be
accomplished with,
objdump -h $FILE |grep .gnu_debuglink
What do you think?
Thanks,
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Matt Taggart
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Package: lintian
Version: 2.5.19
Not a bug. We check now separated debug file
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