"J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, Nov 28, 2003 at 04:56:59 +0100, Christian Marillat wrote: >> Robert McQueen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> > adding trivial extra install/copy commands to debian/rules and providing >> > a -dbg package is not going to cause an otherwise successful build to >> > fail. > >> This will simply double the build times for each package > > That is simply not true. As Robert hints, making a -dbg package involves > some minor additions to debian/rules which cause it to preserve the > debugging information that is generated in a regular build already in a -dbg > package. It does _not_ require the source to be built twice.
This is not true for all packages. For example libgnomeui can be build with --enable-debug, who is a good option for the -dbg packages but surely generate unecessary output for the normal package. Christian
