Package: dwarfdump
Version: 20100214-1
Severity: minor
Tags: patch
Thanks for maintaining the dwarfutils package.
I noticed that the package description claims that this package contains
the older C implementation of dwarfdump, and that there's a dwarfdump2
package with the newer C++ implementation in.
However, there is no dwarfdump2 package (and looking at snapshot.d.o, it
seems there never has been one, at least in a version uploaded to Debian).
Looking at debian/rules, in fact the current dwarfdump package contains
dwarfdump2 (which probably is the right approach, since
dwarfdump2/README in the upstream source says "I would prefer you try
using ../dwarfdump2, not this source.")
I've attached a patch to update the package description to reflect the
current reality.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0.2
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_NZ.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_NZ.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
diff -ru dwarfutils-20100214/debian/control dwarfutils-20100214.orig/debian/control
--- dwarfutils-20100214/debian/control 2011-07-11 13:41:20.000000000 +1200
+++ dwarfutils-20100214.orig/debian/control 2011-07-11 13:37:34.000000000 +1200
@@ -10,11 +10,11 @@
Section: utils
Architecture: any
Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}
-Description: utility to dump DWARF debug information from ELF objects
- This package contains dwarfdump2, the newer implementation of dwarfdump
- written in C++.
+Description: original utility to dump DWARF debug information from ELF objects
+ This is the older implementation of dwarfdump written in C, see the
+ dwarfdump2 package for the updated C++ version.
.
- This utility is part of dwarfutils.
+ This library is part of dwarfutils.
Package: libdwarf-dev
Section: libdevel
