Please find a git patch attached that should solve the problem. I have
tested it locally, and it seems to generate the packages fine.
From 5ff3767fd8f34d1de66026c2f1fa2266f3bb7339 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Marius B. Kotsbak" <mar...@kotsbak.com>
Date: Sun, 3 Aug 2014 16:03:53 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Add debug symbols package (Closes: #756936).
---
debian/changelog | 6 ++++++
debian/control | 8 ++++++++
debian/modem-manager-gui.install | 1 +
debian/rules | 3 +++
4 files changed, 18 insertions(+)
create mode 100644 debian/modem-manager-gui.install
diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 0e53ac5..307c510 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+modem-manager-gui (0.0.16-4) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
+
+ * Add debug symbols package (Closes: #756936).
+
+ -- Marius B. Kotsbak <mar...@kotsbak.com> Sun, 03 Aug 2014 19:32:05 +0200
+
modem-manager-gui (0.0.16-3) unstable; urgency=medium
* Change architecture to linux-any (Closes: #721782).
diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index f95b2df..4d3c0fe 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -28,3 +28,11 @@ Description: Modem Manager GUI
daemon D-Bus interfaces. It can send, receive and store SMS messages,
send USSD requests and read answers in GSM7 and UCS2 formats,
and scan for available mobile networks.
+
+Package: modem-manager-gui-dbg
+Section: debug
+Priority: extra
+Architecture: linux-any
+Depends: modem-manager-gui (= ${binary:Version}), ${misc:Depends}
+Description: Modem Manager GUI
+ This package contains detached debugging symbols.
diff --git a/debian/modem-manager-gui.install b/debian/modem-manager-gui.install
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..73752c9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/debian/modem-manager-gui.install
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+usr
diff --git a/debian/rules b/debian/rules
index 5cbf711..14a1304 100755
--- a/debian/rules
+++ b/debian/rules
@@ -9,3 +9,6 @@ override_dh_auto_clean:
if [ -f Makefile_h ] ; then \
dh_auto_clean ; \
fi
+
+override_dh_strip:
+ dh_strip --dbg-package=modem-manager-gui-dbg
--
1.9.1
