On Sun, Nov 16, 2025 at 11:54:41AM +1100, Ken McDonell wrote: > Hi, > > I'm one of the upstream developers for pcp (https://pcp.io/). > > After about 20 years of not having debug packages for Debian-like builds > because we could not get it to work, we've returned to the issue. > > I made this change to the rules file: > > - if dh_strip -a --no-automatic-dbgsym; then :; else dh_strip -a; fi > + dh_strip -a > > Now there are some 38 packages build from our rules and control file, and > this change emitted an additional 6 packages with -dbgsym names ... good so > far. > > But when these packages are installed we're seeing multiple errors like: > > dpkg: error processing archive pcp-testsuite-dbgsym_7.0.3-1_i386.deb > (--install): > trying to overwrite > '/usr/lib/debug/.build-id/03/1ee94b5063d0d1066fad44f5c91ac129946338.debug', > which is also in package pcp-dbgsym 7.0.3-1 > > and sure enough, dbpkg-deb -c confirms that this file is in *both* the > pcp-dbgsym and pcp-testsuite-dbgsym .deb package files. > > Strangely, this failed on Debian 11, 12 and 13 in our overnight build and QA, > but not on any of the Ubuntu systems with corresponding Debian bases. > > Any clues or hints would be most appreciated.
The error is caused by having debug info for the same binary in both -dbgsym packages. Move dh_strip below the uninstall lines. cu Adrian
