On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 02:41:52PM -0600, Troy Heber wrote:
> Thanks for your bug report! Actually, the package description is
> correct. The dwarfdump binary is build using the newer "dwarfdump2"
> C++ source code, not the original dwarfdump C code. This ONLY affects
> the actual dwarfdump binary utility and has absolutely nothing to do
> with libdwarf. I realize this can be a bit confusing but I chose to
> stick with the dwarfdump binary name instead of using dwarfdump2
> because a) the upstream package maintains the dwarfdump binary. b)
> there was no conflict in Debian because the original dwarfdump utility
> was never part of the archive. c) Both versions of the executable are
> fairly compatible. So I'm closing this bug because it is not actually
> a bug.
>
> Please let me know if you have any additional questions.
I think you've misunderstood me and/or misread my patch.
OK, let's take the dwarfdump package description line by line ("|" is
quoting the current dwarfdump package description):
| Description: original utility to dump DWARF debug information from ELF objects
You say above:
> The dwarfdump binary is build using the newer "dwarfdump2" C++ source
> code, not the original dwarfdump C code
So the package is not the *original* utility, it's the newer one.
| This is the older implementation of dwarfdump written in C,
Again, according to what you yourself say above, this is not the *older
implementation* and it is not *written in C.
| see the dwarfdump2 package for the updated C++ version.
There is no dwarfdump2 package in the archive, and as far as I can tell
there never has been.
| .
| This library is part of dwarfutils.
And this package isn't a library.
Please reconsider the patch.
Cheers,
Olly
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