On 20.11.2016 13:46, Nicolas George wrote: > Debian has the habit of shipping -dbg versions of library packages with > debug symbols included, to allow people to debug programs using these > libraries. I suppose the Debian framework has provisions to create both > the stripped and the debug packages from the installed files. > > (I do not see the -dbg version of the ffmpeg libraries in the > repositories right now. Also, I do not understand why the debug > information cannot be shipped as a separate file.)
The *-dbg packages typically contained only the debug symbols as separated files. I say contained, because the fancy new thing are automatically created *-dbgsym packages (with the same content) distributed in a separate *-debug suite. The wiki [1] has more details. Best regards, Andreas 1: https://wiki.debian.org/AutomaticDebugPackages _______________________________________________ ffmpeg-devel mailing list ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org http://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-devel
