Package: lintian Version: 1.23.8 Severity: wishlist 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 is really cool because now we don't need to have two copies of ever binary we want debugable, just the normal package and then the debugging add on. I guess dh_strip now has support for doing this by default when generating -dbg packages.
I would like to see linitian check binaries of packages that support debugging. As this is not yet policy it would just be a warning I guess. My guess at implementing: For packages that support debugging (I think lintian already determines this somehow right?), check each binary for the pointer to the separate debug info and printing a warning if not present. I think the check for support can be accomplished with, objdump -h $FILE |grep .gnu_debuglink What do you think? Thanks, -- Matt Taggart [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
