Bug#668437: lintian: Identify -dbg packages that have binaries with no debugging symbols
Hi! On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 12:01 PM, Niels Thykier ni...@thykier.net wrote: Did you by chance mean cut -b 8 or so. By the looks of it 18 cuts into the symbol/section/$something name. I assume the N you are talking about would be: | v N .debug_abbrev N .debug_aranges N .debug_frame N .debug_info N .debug_line N .debug_loc N .debug_pubnames N .debug_str ^ | It's 18 here: N .debug_abbrev N .debug_aranges N .debug_info If so, we should be able to simply check for the presence of any section starting with .debug_ (or maybe just .debug_line, which supposedly holds the line number mappings)[1]. But indeed. Better check for .debug_* Thank you! Best regards, Nelson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#668437: lintian: Identify -dbg packages that have binaries with no debugging symbols
On 2012-04-11 22:37, Nelson A. de Oliveira wrote: Package: lintian Version: 2.5.6 Severity: wishlist Hi! Using #652099 as an example, we have a source package that has a -dbg binary package, with files located under /usr/lib/debug/ as they should be but with one problem: there are no debugging symbols. Could lintian do a new check against the binaries in a -dbg package to see if they indeed have the proper debugging symbols? Hi, It might be possible to do... Something like doing a nm -a $file | cut -b 18 and grepping for N If no N is found then we have a file with missing symbols and a warning about this. Did you by chance mean cut -b 8 or so. By the looks of it 18 cuts into the symbol/section/$something name. I assume the N you are talking about would be: | v N .debug_abbrev N .debug_aranges N .debug_frame N .debug_info N .debug_line N .debug_loc N .debug_pubnames N .debug_str ^ | (I don't know if nm + cut + grep is the best way to test for debugging symbols, but it seems to do the job) Thank you! Best regards, Nelson [...] If so, we should be able to simply check for the presence of any section starting with .debug_ (or maybe just .debug_line, which supposedly holds the line number mappings)[1]. ~Niels [1] Ref: http://www.dwarfstd.org/doc/Debugging%20using%20DWARF.pdf (see ELF sections on page 9) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#668437: lintian: Identify -dbg packages that have binaries with no debugging symbols
Package: lintian Version: 2.5.6 Severity: wishlist Hi! Using #652099 as an example, we have a source package that has a -dbg binary package, with files located under /usr/lib/debug/ as they should be but with one problem: there are no debugging symbols. Could lintian do a new check against the binaries in a -dbg package to see if they indeed have the proper debugging symbols? Something like doing a nm -a $file | cut -b 18 and grepping for N If no N is found then we have a file with missing symbols and a warning about this. (I don't know if nm + cut + grep is the best way to test for debugging symbols, but it seems to do the job) Thank you! Best regards, Nelson -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.0.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=pt_BR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=pt_BR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages lintian depends on: ii binutils 2.22-6 ii bzip2 1.0.6-1 ii diffstat 1.55-2 ii file 5.11-1 ii gettext0.18.1.1-5 ii intltool-debian0.35.0+20060710.1 ii libapt-pkg-perl0.1.26 ii libc-bin 2.13-27 ii libclass-accessor-perl 0.34-1 ii libclone-perl 0.31-1+b2 ii libdpkg-perl 1.16.2 ii libemail-valid-perl0.187-2 ii libipc-run-perl0.91-1 ii libparse-debianchangelog-perl 1.2.0-1 ii libtimedate-perl 1.2000-1 ii liburi-perl1.60-1 ii locales2.13-27 ii man-db 2.6.1-2 ii patchutils 0.3.2-1.1 ii perl [libdigest-sha-perl] 5.14.2-9 ii unzip 6.0-6 lintian recommends no packages. Versions of packages lintian suggests: ii binutils-multiarch none ii dpkg-dev 1.16.2 ii libhtml-parser-perl3.69-1+b1 ii libtext-template-perl 1.45-2 ii man-db 2.6.1-2 ii xz-utils 5.1.1alpha+20110809-3 -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
