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commit 9db324c2487ad26d07eb42f71c33141deab837bb Author: Adrian Bunk <b...@debian.org> Date: Mon Oct 16 22:40:22 2017 +0300 checks/binaries.desc: Mention the lack of the "-g" flag as a common cause for debug-file-with-no-debug-symbols tag. (Closes: #878806) Signed-off-by: Chris Lamb <la...@debian.org> --- checks/binaries.desc | 2 ++ debian/changelog | 4 ++++ 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/checks/binaries.desc b/checks/binaries.desc index 73f789a..708ad26 100644 --- a/checks/binaries.desc +++ b/checks/binaries.desc @@ -424,6 +424,8 @@ Ref: #668437 Info: The binary is installed as a detached "debug symbols" ELF file, but it does not appear to have debug information associated with it. . + A common cause is not passing <tt>-g</tt> to GCC when compiling. + . Implementation detail: Lintian checks for the ".debug_line" and the ".debug_str" sections. If either of these are present, the binary is assumed to contain debug information. diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog index 17ea642..9e20c3f 100644 --- a/debian/changelog +++ b/debian/changelog @@ -2,6 +2,10 @@ lintian (2.5.56) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium XXX: generate tag summary + * checks/binaries.desc: + + [CL] Apply patch from Adrian Bunk to mention the lack of the "-g" + flag as a common cause for the debug-file-with-no-debug-symbols tag. + (Closes: #878806) * checks/conffiles.pm, checks/{debconf,files,scripts}.desc: + [CL] Apply patch from Ville Skyttä <ville.sky...@iki.fi> to fix a number of spelling mistakes. (Closes: #878446) -- Alioth's /usr/local/bin/git-commit-notice on /srv/git.debian.org/git/lintian/lintian.git