Package: debhelper Version: 5.0.37.3 Severity: normal Hi,
look: $ file debian/exim4-base/usr/sbin/exim_dumpdb debian/exim4-base/usr/sbin/exim_dumpdb: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), for GNU/Linux 2.4.1, dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.4.1, not stripped $ DH_COMPAT=5 DH_VERBOSE=1 dh_strip -pexim4-base -peximon4 --dbg-package=exim4-dbg objcopy --only-keep-debug debian/exim4-base/usr/sbin/exim_dumpdb debian/exim4-dbg/usr/lib/debug//usr/sbin/exim_dumpdb chmod 644 debian/exim4-dbg/usr/lib/debug//usr/sbin/exim_dumpdb strip --remove-section=.comment --remove-section=.note debian/exim4-base/usr/sbin/exim_dumpdb objcopy --add-gnu-debuglink debian/exim4-dbg/usr/lib/debug//usr/sbin/exim_dumpdb debian/exim4-base/usr/sbin/exim_dumpdb $ file debian/exim4-base/usr/sbin/exim_dumpdb debian/exim4-base/usr/sbin/exim_dumpdb: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), for GNU/Linux 2.4.1, dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.4.1, stripped $ DH_COMPAT=5 DH_VERBOSE=1 dh_strip -pexim4-base -peximon4 --dbg-package=exim4-dbg objcopy --only-keep-debug debian/exim4-base/usr/sbin/exim_dumpdb debian/exim4-dbg/usr/lib/debug//usr/sbin/exim_dumpdb chmod 644 debian/exim4-dbg/usr/lib/debug//usr/sbin/exim_dumpdb strip --remove-section=.comment --remove-section=.note debian/exim4-base/usr/sbin/exim_dumpdb objcopy --add-gnu-debuglink debian/exim4-dbg/usr/lib/debug//usr/sbin/exim_dumpdb debian/exim4-base/usr/sbin/exim_dumpdb objcopy: debian/exim4-dbg/usr/lib/debug//usr/sbin/exim_dumpdb: Invalid operation dh_strip: command returned error code 256 $ On the first call, dh_strip --dbg-package strips the input binary. On the second call, dh_strip --dbg-package calls objcopy on the stripped binary, and objcopy does not seem to appreciate that. dh_strip should behave more gracefully here. Greetings Marc -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.17.7-zgsrv Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=de_DE (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Versions of packages debhelper depends on: ii binutils 2.17-1 The GNU assembler, linker and bina ii coreutils 5.96-5 The GNU core utilities ii dpkg-dev 1.13.22 package building tools for Debian ii file 4.17-2 Determines file type using "magic" ii html2text 1.3.2a-3 An advanced HTML to text converter ii perl 5.8.8-6 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction ii po-debconf 1.0.5 manage translated Debconf template debhelper recommends no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]