Bug#520680: libc6-dbg: Debug symbols not broken up by runtime package

2009-03-21 Thread Samuel Bronson
Package: libc6-dbg Version: 2.7-15 Severity: normal It looks like the symbols for all three of libc6, libc6-amd64, and libc6-i686 are included in this package. Combined with the fixing of #516516, this results (well, will result, for me) in a quite large package, parts of which may be quite

Bug#520680: libc6-dbg: Debug symbols not broken up by runtime package

2009-04-25 Thread Samuel Bronson
On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 4:12 AM, Aurelien Jarno aurel...@aurel32.net wrote: Yes, debugging packages in Debian are all using the same layout: one per source package. A lot of them are a lot bigger than libc6-dbg. Wouldn't it be better to split the symbols for libc6-foo into a seperate

Bug#399035: LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/debug causes switch to ancient libpthread

2007-01-11 Thread Samuel Bronson
On Fri, Nov 17, 2006 at 10:58:53AM +0100, Kristian Nielsen wrote: My understanding of ld.so is unfortunately limited, but perhaps the problem is related to missing libpthread.so.0 symbolic links? Nope. There are three separate builds of glibc: one with LinuxThreads and no debug, one with

Bug#660779: ldconfig: should ignore files with names ending in -gdb.py

2012-02-21 Thread Samuel Bronson
Package: libc-bin Version: 2.13-24 Severity: normal File: /sbin/ldconfig Lately, whenever the ldconfig trigger runs, I see a warning like this: ldconfig: /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6.0.16-gdb.py is not an ELF file - it has the wrong magic bytes at the start. The file in question is

Bug#693848: libc6: ld.so: LD_DEBUG=libs doesn't do what help says

2012-11-20 Thread Samuel Bronson
Package: libc6 Version: 2.13-35 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, I'm a little puzzled here: Based on this help: ,[ LD_DEBUG=help /bin/true ] | Valid options for the LD_DEBUG environment variable are: | | libsdisplay library search paths

Bug#698711: libc6-dev: FAQ says glibc only ported to Hurd and Linux 2.x

2013-01-22 Thread Samuel Bronson
Package: libc6-dev Version: 2.13-37 Severity: wishlist File: /usr/share/doc/libc6-dev/FAQ.gz Dear Maintainer, In the answer to question 1.1, What systems does the GNU C Library run on?, the [e]glibc FAQ lists GNU Hurd, a bunch different architectures supported with Linux 2.x, and ARM on

Bug#700760: libc6: GDB 7.5 would benefit from a SystemTap SDT probe

2013-02-16 Thread Samuel Bronson
Package: libc6 Version: 2.13-37 Severity: wishlist Dear Maintainer, GDB 7.5 could use -- System Information: Debian Release: 7.0 APT prefers testing-proposed-updates APT policy: (991, 'testing-proposed-updates'), (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386

Bug#711913: libc6: ld.so falsely claims the vDSO comes from a file

2013-06-10 Thread Samuel Bronson
Package: libc6 Version: 2.17-4 Severity: normal Control: forwarded -1 http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=13097 Control: affects -1 + gdb Control: found -1 libc6/2.16-0experimental0 Dear Maintainer, I recently noticed the behaviour in gdb complained of in the below upstream bug report

Bug#700760: libc6: GDB 7.5 would benefit from a SystemTap SDT probe

2014-05-15 Thread Samuel Bronson
Er, the previous message was supposed to say sometihng about how GDB could benefit from SystemTap SDT probes in glibc. The GDB wiki talks a bit about it on https://sourceware.org/gdb/wiki/DistroAdvice. Now that systemtap-sdt-dev is Architecture: all, it should be as simple as this: 1. Add

Bug#700760: Bug#751285: systemtap-sdt-dev: should be Arch: all so gcc and libc can B-D on it

2014-06-11 Thread Samuel Bronson
Matthias Klose d...@debian.org writes: [...] If you really are too lazy to have architecture specific build dependencies, then consider shipping an empty package for the unsupported architectures. Um, that was actually meant as a convenience for *you* (and anyone else who works on a package