On Mon, Dec 28, 2015 at 07:35:13PM +0000, Mattia Rizzolo wrote: > On Mon, Dec 28, 2015 at 08:23:39PM +0100, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > > I play with the bpo version on my every day box, > > but, since debhelp is the Jessie version, no extra/hidden -dbgsym > > is generated. > > You should build your package in a chroot of the target distribution, > always (in this case, you need a sid chroot).
Having such a chroot is good for testing whether the package works, but if you want to check whether build-depends are appropriate, you need a minimal clean build environment. For this, you can use pbuilder or sbuild. -- A tit a day keeps the vet away.
