Bug#299578: lintian: check that -dbg packages are using separate debugging info

2008-11-30 Thread Matt Taggart
forgot to cc the bug.. On Tue, 2008-06-24 at 23:24 +0100, Adam D. Barratt wrote: Hi, On Mon, 2005-03-14 at 20:08 -0800, Matt Taggart wrote: binutils and gdb now have support for putting debugging info into a separ ate file. So you build things debugable and you get a separate file

Bug#299578: lintian: check that -dbg packages are using separate debugging info

2008-11-30 Thread Russ Allbery
Matt Taggart [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: That check is good, but what I was thinking with the original bug is that you should check the binaries for the .gnu_debuglink and make sure that what it's pointing at exists and is in the right place in the -dbg package. It's unfortunately fairly hard

Bug#299578: lintian: check that -dbg packages are using separate debugging info

2008-11-30 Thread Matt Taggart
It's unfortunately fairly hard for lintian to do this since lintian checks one package at a time and would need to do cross-package checking to match up the binaries with the -dbg package. Ah right, darn. I guess it could at least do some sanity checks on the value of .gnu_debuglink but I

Bug#299578: lintian: check that -dbg packages are using separate debugging info

2008-11-28 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Tue, 2008-06-24 at 23:24 +0100, Adam D. Barratt wrote: Hi, On Mon, 2005-03-14 at 20:08 -0800, Matt Taggart wrote: binutils and gdb now have support for putting debugging info into a separate file. So you build things debugable and you get a separate file with all the debugging

Bug#299578: lintian: check that -dbg packages are using separate debugging info

2008-06-24 Thread Adam D. Barratt
Hi, On Mon, 2005-03-14 at 20:08 -0800, Matt Taggart wrote: binutils and gdb now have support for putting debugging info into a separate file. So you build things debugable and you get a separate file with all the debugging info and a normal binary that contains a pointer to this info. This