severity 595161 wishlist retitle 595161 dh_strip should add a README.Debian file explaining how to use the -dbg package thanks
On Wed, Sep 01, 2010 at 05:51:02PM +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > Thomas Themel a écrit : > > Package: libc6-dbg > > Version: 2.11.2-2 > > Severity: important > > > > Hi, > > > > I'd like to point out that there is zero documentation telling you what l= > > ibc6-dbg > > is supposed to be useful for. The only thing that it installs in /usr/sha= > > re/doc > > are the changelogs that are bytewise identical to those in libc6 and libc= > > 6-dev. > > > > Are we supposed to link to these libraries when building debuggable > > applications? Can they be replaced at runtime with some LD_ magic? My si= > > mple > > attempts at setting LD_LIBRARY_PATH to /usr/lib/debug/lib are ignored (si= > > nce > > there no libc.so.6 symlinks), and LD_PRELOADing > > /usr/lib/debug/lib/libc-2.11.2.so just makes my applications segfault. > > > > Any help appreciated. > > > > There is nothing to do, gdb use them by default, like the zillions of > -dbg packages that are already in the archive. > As it makes no sense to add documentation to all -dbg packages manually, debhelper could probably automatically add a README.Debian file to the -dbg package explaining that the user that the package is automatically used by gdb and he has nothing to do. -- Aurelien Jarno GPG: 1024D/F1BCDB73 aurel...@aurel32.net http://www.aurel32.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-glibc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100901160658.ge19...@hall.aurel32.net
