Thanks Paul for the concise explanation. This helped me fixing the error within minutes!
Cheers, Nico On Sun, Feb 1, 2015 at 4:37 AM, Paul Wise <p...@debian.org> wrote: > On Sat, Jan 31, 2015 at 8:40 PM, Nico Schlömer wrote: > >> For Mixxx [1], I would like for users to produce meaningful backtraces >> in case of crashes (see [2]). What build options are needed or useful >> for debugging purposes? What's the canonical way for adding them to >> the Debian packages? > > Until [1] gets implemented, you will need to use debhelper 9, add a > mixxx-dbg package to debian/control and override dh_strip to include > the --dbg-package parameter: > > debian/compat: > > 9 > > debian/rules: > > override_dh_strip: > dh_strip --dbg-package=mixxx-dbg > > debian/control: > > Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 9) > > Package: mixxx-dbg > Section: debug > Architecture: any > Priority: extra > Depends: > mixxx (= ${binary:Version}), > ${misc:Depends} > Description: debug files for mixxx > This package contains debug information for mixxx.... > . > It can be used to debug mixxx using a debugger if it crashes due to > programming errors. > > 1. https://wiki.debian.org/AutomaticDebugPackages > > -- > bye, > pabs > > https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: > https://lists.debian.org/caktje6ggua9pdim8tbwp-be33+qf3gbb-mxf_+uxkkt5vh...@mail.gmail.com > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/cak6z60fhns1f58fat0fsg_7zh9ou80wwlgstjbg1sno3zkb...@mail.gmail.com