Package: wireshark
Version: 1.2.6-5
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch
When investigating #574086 which I reported yesterday, I first tried
adding a -dbg to the locally built package. However, I found that gdb is
quite useless for the executables built from the wireshark source
package:
,----
| warning: The current binary is a PIE (Position Independent Executable), which
| GDB does NOT currently support. Most debugger features will fail if used
| in this session.
`----
gdb isn't even able to resolve the debug symbols for printing a
backtrace...
After a lot of wasted time looking at the build system's output, it
finally dawned on me that usage of hardening-wrapper was the cause for
these "weird" executables.
Apparently, patches for gdb have existed for a while that enable it to
deal with position-independent executables, and they may even end up in
version 7.1 of gdb which might even be released before squeeze is
frozen.
Shipping debugging symbols and building wireshark in a way that makes it
possible or easier to use those would greatly benefit users. (I am
certain that this would have saved me a _lot_ of time.)
Please consider shipping a -dbg package
Please consider disabling PIEs until we (Debian) have a debugger that
can handle those.
Thanks,
-Hilko
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-3-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages wireshark depends on:
ii libatk1.0-0 1.28.0-1 The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii libc-ares2 1.7.0-1 library for asyncronous name resol
ii libc6 2.10.2-6 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii libcairo2 1.8.10-3 The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii libcomerr2 1.41.10-1 common error description library
ii libfontconfig1 2.8.0-2 generic font configuration library
ii libfreetype6 2.3.11-1 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii libgcrypt11 1.4.5-2 LGPL Crypto library - runtime libr
ii libglib2.0-0 2.22.4-1 The GLib library of C routines
ii libgnutls26 2.8.5-2 the GNU TLS library - runtime libr
ii libgtk2.0-0 2.18.7-1 The GTK+ graphical user interface
ii libk5crypto3 1.8+dfsg~alpha1-7 MIT Kerberos runtime libraries - C
ii libkrb5-3 1.8+dfsg~alpha1-7 MIT Kerberos runtime libraries
ii libpango1.0-0 1.26.2-1 Layout and rendering of internatio
ii libpcap0.8 1.0.0-6 system interface for user-level pa
ii libpcre3 7.8-3 Perl 5 Compatible Regular Expressi
ii libportaudio2 19+svn20071022-3+b1 Portable audio I/O - shared librar
ii libsmi2ldbl 0.4.8+dfsg2-2 library to access SMI MIB informat
ii wireshark-common 1.2.6-5 network traffic analyzer - common
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 compression library - runtime
wireshark recommends no packages.
wireshark suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information
--- wireshark-1.2.6/debian/control 2010-02-15 19:45:02.000000000 +0100
+++ wireshark/debian/control 2010-03-17 11:37:54.000000000 +0100
@@ -64,3 +64,16 @@
.
This package provides idl2wrs and other files necessary for developing
new packet dissectors.
+
+Package: wireshark-dbg
+Priority: extra
+Architecture: any
+Section: debug
+Depends: wireshark-common (= ${binary:Version})
+Description: network traffic analyzer - debug symbols
+ Wireshark is a network "sniffer" - a tool that captures and analyzes
+ packets off the wire. Wireshark can decode too many protocols to list
+ here.
+ .
+ This package contains stripped debugging symbols for all Wireshark
+ programs and libraries.
--- wireshark-1.2.6/debian/rules 2010-02-15 18:49:34.000000000 +0100
+++ wireshark/debian/rules 2010-03-17 11:38:17.000000000 +0100
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
# Uncomment this to turn on verbose mode.
#export DH_VERBOSE=1
export DEB_BUILD_HARDENING=1
+export DEB_BUILD_HARDENING_PIE=0
DB2MAN=/usr/share/xml/docbook/stylesheet/nwalsh/manpages/docbook.xsl
@@ -119,7 +120,7 @@
# Build architecture-dependent files here.
binary-arch: install check
- dh_strip
+ dh_strip --dbg-package=wireshark-dbg
dh_compress
dh_fixperms
