On Sun, Sep 9, 2012 at 1:05 PM, Kaj Ailomaa <zeque...@mousike.me> wrote: > I had someone asking about this on a Ubuntu Studio IRC channel, and myself > being ignorant on the subject, I got help from the same person on collecting > some info on debugging symbols being built in into debian multimedia > packages, and also searched the web a bit to see what I could find. > > As he suggested, some packages, such as qtractor, have build flags for > including debug symbols in the rules file. > > And what I found while searching the web was that this may be the preferred > way to build debian multimedia packages - > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=684035. > > So, my question is, is there a policy for including debug symbols with > debian multimedia packages, and why?
We generally follow the recommendation of the Debian Developer's Reference: http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/best-pkging-practices.html#bpp-dbg > > If so, why not split those into additional packages? That link above mandates to split debug symbols into separate packages ending on -dbg. This is also what we do in pkg-multimedia. The catch is that not all packages do ship -dbg packages. The general rule is that if someone feels they would be helpful, then he adds the appropriate rules to produce the -dbg package. Note that in Ubuntu, the creation of -dbg packages is unnecessary, because the launchpad infrastructure automatically produces so-called .ddeb packages and publishes them at http://ddebs.ubuntu.com/. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingProgramCrash for Ubuntu specific instructions, and compare them to http://wiki.debian.org/HowToGetABacktrace -- regards, Reinhard _______________________________________________ pkg-multimedia-maintainers mailing list pkg-multimedia-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-multimedia-maintainers
