On Sun, 09 Sep 2012 13:05:01 +0200, 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?

If so, why not split those into additional packages?


Again, I'm not very wise on the subject, but it seems to me that the main qtractor package includes debugs symbols, even though, I suppose they are supposed to go into qtractor-dbg.

This is the rules file:

#!/usr/bin/make -f

LDFLAGS+=-Wl,--as-needed

%:
        dh $@ --parallel --with autoreconf

override_dh_auto_configure:
        dh_auto_configure -- --enable-debug \
                --enable-lilv \
                --enable-suil

override_dh_strip:
        dh_strip --dbg-package=qtractor-dbg

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